ISU is one of 12 public universities in Illinois. There are 67 undergraduate programs in 182 fields of study are offered through the Colleges of Applied Science and Technology, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Fine Arts, and Nursing. The Graduate School coordinates 40 master’s programs, eight certificate programs, and eight doctoral programs. The University’s academic programs are supported by the services and collections of Milner Library, which contains over 3,000,000 holdings and special collections.
Illinois State University is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The teacher preparation programs are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and are certified by the Illinois State Board of Education. Illinois State programs hold accreditation from twenty-five discipline-based agencies.
The University enrolls over 20,265 students from 49 states and 77 countries. The largest segment of the student body (54 percent) comes from the Chicago area and surrounding collar counties; and an additional 23 percent are from McLean and central Illinois counties. Approximately 88 percent are undergraduate students and 12 percent are graduate students. The enrollment includes a significant number of minority students, students with disabilities, and adult learners. The mean ACT score for new beginning freshman was 23.8 in fall 2005 with 83 percent in the top half of their high school graduating class.
The University employs over 1,100 faculty members. The faculty is dedicated to the provision of superior teaching and includes numerous scholars who are recognized at national and international levels.
The central mission of the University is to expand the horizons of knowledge and culture among students, colleagues, and the general citizenry through teaching and research. Illinois State University recognizes that teaching and research are mutually supportive activities.
In 2006, University faculty and staff received 250 grants totaling more than $19.1 million. Sixty-one percent of the funding came from federal sources, twenty-four percent was state-funded, and the remaining fifteen percent came from corporate or other sources. Of the awards received, thirty-one percent were instruction-based grants, forty percent were for basic research, and the final twenty-nine percent were service or creative in nature.
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