ECE Illinois Stats

The statistics on this page use the most recent data available. In most cases, the year the data represents is provided in parenthesis.

General

  • Electrical Engineering Department founded in 1891
  • Computer engineering added and department changed to
    Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1972
  • More than 130 courses offered
  • Class section size averages 28.9 students (2006-2007)
  • More than $24.2 million in research expenditures (2005-2006)
  • Faculty in the department hold 134 active patents (May 2007)

Undergraduate Students

  • Total students: 1,275 (2006-2007)
  • Computer engineering majors: 477 (2006-2007)
  • Electrical engineering majors: 798 (2006-2007)
  • Computer Engineering degrees conferred, academic year 2005-2006: 127
  • Electrical engineering degrees conferred, academic year 2005-2006: 215
  • Computer engineering incoming freshmen average ACT score: 30.8 (2006-2007)
  • Electrical engineering incoming freshman average ACT score: 30.9 (2006-2007)
  • Computer engineering incoming freshmen average high school rank: 89 (2006-2007)
  • Electrical engineering incoming freshman average high school rank: 89 (2006-2007)

Graduate Students

  • Total students: 560 (2006-2007)
  • Master’s degrees conferred, academic year 2005-2006: 125
  • PhD degrees conferred, academic year 2005-2006: 53

Alumni

  • Living alumni worldwide: 19,722
  • Alumni with more than one degree from ECE Illinois: 2,915

Rankings

  • The Princeton Review named Illinois one of the nation's best undergraduate values in the 2008 edition of its book, America's Best Value Colleges.
  • US News & World Report ranks the undergraduate engineering program at Illinois number 5 (2008)
  • US News & World Report ranks the undergraduate computer engineering program at Illinois number 5 (2008)
  • US News & World Report ranks the undergraduate electrical engineering program at Illinois number 4 (2008)
  • US News & World Report ranks the graduate engineering program at Illinois number 5 (2008)
  • US News & World Report ranks the graduate computer engineering program at Illinois number 5 (2009)
  • US News & World Report ranks the graduate electrical engineering program at Illinois number 4 (2009)

Faculty

  • Total faculty: 101
  • Faculty with industry experience: 61
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellows: 51 (2007)
  • American Physical Society (APS) fellows: 7 (2007)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows: 7 (2007)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows: 10 (2007)
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE) members: 9 faculty, 5 emeritus faculty (2007)

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