University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Top Questions

It's a place where opportunities are endless. You can study almost anything and learn something new every day. It's a big enough school where you can meet someone new each day, but small enough that you don't feel lost. By the end of my college career, the school seemed quite small to me!

A huge campus that allows students to be themselves and join as many organizations as they like.

The access to rescources on campus is amazing. You can find any type of club or group of people that shares a similar interest with you. No matter how unique the interest, I guarantee someone else on campus shares that interest and more likely than not there is a club or group already dedicated. No one ever has to feel alone as long as they make the first step toward finding a place to fit in.

The best thing about UIUC is the people. On campus, you will come across and meet a great variety of people with different backgrounds and interest. Being surrounded by such a diverse group of students is both refreshing and enlightening.

It is a world renowned university where there are many chances to participate in research and extra curricular activities. There are many resources for finding research positions and there are professors are working in any field you can imagine so finding something related to your interests will not be hard to do. Likewise, since it is so renowned it has many partnerships with foreign universities doing research in another country is extremely easy to do in comparision to many other universities.

The Arboretum. It was this field behind the entire campus that not that many people knew about. It was my sanctuary whenever I became stressed or just needed to get away or anything! I loved that area behind the campus.

At the U of I, I was apart of the Delta Gamma sorority. DG was without a doubt the best thing about my school to me. Coming from a high school where everyone knew each other to a 50,000 plus person school was a huge shock. Greek life made campus so much smaller and helped me immensely with adjusting to life in college. DG alum's have helped me with a lot of things including choosing the right law school! I made so many friends I couldn't imagine not knowing now.

Resources. We have so many resources on everything. Volunteering, career services, family trouble, legal issues, resume help, study abroad... You name it, there is someone that can help you.

I love that the school provides students with so many opportunities to get involved, whether it be with extracurricular activities, or with research that faculty is doing. Students are very able to get hands-on experience that will help them with grad school and with future jobs. The faculty here also really cares about the students here, so you really feel as though people care about whether you succeed or not.

Well funded in research.