Chicago's largest university with 35,000+ students across 16 colleges and major research programs.
UIC operates 16 colleges offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs across engineering, computer science, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, management, sciences, and humanities. The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year MD program at three Illinois sites: Chicago, Peoria, and Rockford. A new College of Engineering building opened in 2019 with the only high-bay structural laboratory in Chicago. The Computer Design Research and Learning Center (CDRLC), budgeted at $117.8 million, is slated for completion fall 2024 to accommodate rising computer science enrollment.
The East Campus, designed in brutalist style by Walter Netsch, sits on the Near West Side just south of Greektown, 15 minutes from downtown Chicago. The West Campus houses health science colleges and the Illinois Medical Center. UIC offers ten residence halls with approximately 3,800 students living on campus, including over half of all freshmen. Student recreation includes a three-story climbing wall, Olympic pool, fitness centers, and outdoor multipurpose fields. The university is accessible via CTA Blue Line (UIC-Halsted, Racine, Illinois Medical District stations) and Pink Line.
UIC enrolled its second-largest freshman class with 40% first-generation students. The university offers $0 tuition and fees for families earning $75,000 or less. Regular admission pathways are available for domestic and international students, with transfer options also supported.
Classified as R1: Doctoral Universities with very high research activity, UIC is a major research institution within the University of Illinois System. The university is part of the Illinois Medical District, contributing $3.3 billion to the local economy and supporting 50,000 jobs. UIC College of Medicine was affiliated with Cook County Hospital, featured in the television series E.R.