In the US NEWS 20 15 ranking of American universities, this university ranks among the top in graduate programs in the United States 10, including physics, chemistry, computer science, psychology, education, accounting, human resources and labor relations, mass communication, library science, music, number theory, algebra, logic and microbiology. The engineering school of this school is very famous in the United States, ranking fifth. Its departments of electrical engineering, computer engineering, civil engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, agricultural engineering and environmental engineering rank in the top five in the United States, while chemical engineering, aerospace engineering and industrial engineering rank in the top 10. According to the 20 15 academic ranking of world universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranks fourth in the world in engineering field, second only to MIT, Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and ahead of all Ivy League schools.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1922 awarded the first bachelor's degree in accounting, and 1939 awarded the world's first doctorate in accounting.
In terms of social sciences, the Department of Psychology of this school ranks fifth in the United States with similar departments of Harvard University, Princeton University, UCLA and other institutions, and the major of human resources and labor relations is recognized as the top three in the United States, while library science has always ranked first in the United States. The college also has the largest alumni relationship, the widest coverage and the most comprehensive actuarial department in the United States, and is the earliest member of the actuarial center of excellence.