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LAS FIRST-YEARS WELCOME - August 2022
Filled with accomplished, thoughtful, and dedicated students, faculty, staff, and alumni, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois addresses the world’s largest challenges. Through diverse classrooms, cutting- edge labs, and life-changing opportunities, the people of LAS pursue activities that create worldwide impact. Liberal Arts & Sciences THE COLLEGE OF AT ILLINOIS
• 37 academic departments; 5 schools; 9 centers and institutes • More than 70 majors and 60 minors offered • More than 1,400 unique classes taught each semester • 99% of all Illinois undergraduate students take a class in LAS during their time on campus • 89% of LAS graduates report participating in experiential learning (internships, research experiences, service learning, etc.) during their undergraduate studies • 440 LAS students studied abroad in 31 countries in 2022-2023 UNITS AND ACADEMIC OFFERINGS
ALUMNI • More than 183,000 living alumni • 7 Nobel Laureates • 9 Pulitzer Prize winners • LAS alumni live in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as well as 141 other countries
FACULTY
• More than 600 tenure system faculty members; 31.4% of the 1,911 tenure system faculty on campus - 38% female - 15% from underrepresented groups • 9 current American Academy of Arts & Sciences members • 9 National Academy of Sciences members • 9 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients since 2015 • 2 current National Academy of Engineering members • 2 National Academy of Medicine members
China: 3,185 South Korea: 1,387 Canada: 655 India: 445 Taiwan: 441 United Kingdom: 338
Japan: 297 Singapore: 198 Malaysia: 179 Thailand: 168 Indonesia: 176
STUDENTS • More than 14,700 students—26% of all students on campus - 11,000+ undergraduates; more than 2,600 graduate students - from 48 states and 49 countries • Undergraduates - 74% in state, 26% out of state - 16% international - 24% from underrepresented groups - 2 ,257 first-year students and 459 transfer students in fall 2022; 22.5% are first- generation college students • 94% of 2021-22 graduates secured their first destination soon after graduating. Average salary: $74,705
SCHOLARSHIPS
• 276 scholarships administered at the college level • More than $3 million in LAS scholarships awarded • Prestigious scholarships won include Boren Scholarships and Fellowships for international study, Critical Language Scholarships, Fulbright awards, Obama- Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, Marshall, and Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Goldwater scholarships
RESEARCH
• $70.8 million in research funding in 2021-2022 – 12% of the campus total. ■ National Institutes of Health: $25.9 million ■ National Science Foundation: $13.6 million ■ Department of Defense: $3.8 million ■ Department of Energy: $1.7 million ■ NASA: $2.4 million ■ Department of Education: $1.6 million ■ Other federal agencies: $3 million ■ Private grants: $9.4 million • 56% of LAS faculty are principal investigators • 22 patents issued and 51 technology transfer disclosures in FY22 • Four active LAS researchers from atmospheric science, plant biology, and psychology appeared on the 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list $ 70.8 MILLION in research funding • For the 2021-2022 academic year, 103 undergraduates submitted honors theses • Books by LAS faculty have received honors including the P. Sterling Stuckey Prize, Robert Lowry Patten Award, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, John Nicholas Brown Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
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