University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
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City: | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois |
Type: | Public |
Sports: | baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling[1] |
Colors: | orange, blue |
Website: | http://www.uiuc.edu/ |
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (commonly referred to as just University of Illinois) is a public university. It is located in Urbana and Champaign Illinois. It ranked #38 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[2] It was ranked the #6 school in PC Magazine's Top 20 Wired Colleges.[3]
Illinois has 10 men's and 11 women's sports teams.[1] The football program has won 6 bowl games (while losing 8), including 4 national championships.[4]