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The University of Illinois at Urbana � Champaign (U of I, UIUC, or simply Illinois) is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois at Urbana � Champaign is the second oldest public university in the state, second to Illinois State University, and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. It is considered a Public Ivy and is a member of the Association of American Universities. The university is designated as a RU/VH Research University (very high research activities). The campus library system is one of the largest public academic collections in the world. It possesses the third-largest university library in the United States (only the collections of Harvard and Yale are larger), and the sixth-largest in the country overall. The university comprises 17 colleges that offer more than 150 programs of study. Additionally, the university operates an extension that serves 2.7 million registrants per year around the state of Illinois and beyond. The campus holds 286 buildings on in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana; its annual operating budget in 2011 was over $1.7 billion. The undergraduate program was ranked 45th among national universities and 13th among public universities by U.S. News & World Report in their 2012 rankings, According to the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University of Illinois at Urbana � Champaign ranked 25th out of the more than 1,000 international institutions recognized. U of I is also home to many top-flight graduate programs; the graduate programs in College of Engineering, Accounting, Library Science, and Computer Science are all ranked by US News in the top five programs in the United States, and the Urban Planning program is ranked by Planetizen as one of the top five US programs. |