1) How competitive are admissions to Illinois Computer Science? Quite competitive. For the last four years in a row, our CS major in The Grainger College of Engineering has broken the record for the most freshman applications received by any program in the history of the university.
How prestigious is UIUC for computer science?
The Illinois CS undergraduate program is ranked 5th by U.S. News & World Report, last ranked in 2020. The Illinois CS graduate program is ranked 5th by U.S. News & World Report, last ranked in 2018.
Is Urbana-Champaign a good school for computer science?
The Department of Computer Science (CS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has consistently been ranked as a top computer science program in the world. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is also ranked as one of the Top 5 Graduate Schools in Computer Engineering.
What College is computer science in at UIUC?
Grainger College of Engineering
Is Urbana-Champaign good for computer science?
The Illinois CS graduate program is ranked 5th by U.S. News & World Report, last ranked in 2018. There are 18 Illinois CS degree programs and more than 90 courses in computer science. In 2020, Champaign-Urbana was ranked #27 on Livability's list of Top 100 Best Places to Live in America.
What's special about UIUC computer science?
It is simply a bigger CS department, with experts in many more areas of CS. It has a long established track-record of making some of the biggest contributions to the field, i.e. extremely high impact research. A lot of the computing you're familiar with and use on a daily basis is thanks to UIUC.
Is it hard to get into UIUC computer science?
While it may be true that UIUC has a high OVERALL acceptance rate (40% - 50%) when compared to other top CS schools like MIT, Stanford & Caltech, the CS department has a much lower acceptance rate.
Is computer science at UIUC hard?
CS has been very difficult to get in. A lot of people I know were admitted to Computer Engineering (CompE) while their first choice was CS. You can try to transfer into CS after you come, but this path has been more and more difficult.