Facts & Rankings
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#7
Undergraduate Electrical Engineering
#6
Undergraduate Computer Engineering
#4
Graduate Electrical Engineering
#5
Graduate Computer Engineering
Undergraduate Program
2023 U.S. News and World Report rankings (published fall 2022):
- Undergraduate electrical engineering: 7
- Undergraduate computer engineering: 6
Statistics for Fall 2021:
- Total undergraduates: 2,089
- Electrical engineering majors: 870
- Computer engineering majors: 1,219
- Bachelor's degrees conferred, academic year 2019-2020: 562
- Composite ACT score: 32.7
Graduate Program
2024 U.S. News and World Report rankings (published spring 2023):
- Graduate electrical engineering: 4
- Graduate computer engineering: 5
Statistics for Fall 2021:
- Total graduate students: 688
- Master of Science students: 138
- M.Eng professional degree students: 117
- PhD students: 399
- Master’s degrees conferred, academic year 2019-2020: 186
- PhD degrees conferred, academic year 2019-2020: 65
1891
Department founded
130+
Courses offered
$50M+
In total research expenditures
300
Active patents held
Faculty
- Total faculty: 197*
- 45 IEEE Fellows
- 12 AAAS Fellows
- 4 ACM Fellows
- 5 APS Fellows
- NAE Members: 6 active, 15 emeritus
*This number includes faculty members with administrative appointments, tenure track faculty, teaching faculty, research faculty, and 79 affiliate faculty.
Alumni
- Living alumni worldwide: 22,000+
- Alumni with more than one degree from Illinois ECE: 3,300