University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Urbana, United States)

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign [betteredu.net]

World rank: 31

Reputation rank: 23

Overall Reputation score: 13.9

Reputation for teaching: 11.4

Reputation for research: 15.1

Spawned amid controversy with its first president pushing for a liberal-arts "school of thought" but opposed by others favouring an industrial college, today's twin-city (Urbana and Champaign) academy teaches around 43,000 students enrolled in about 150 courses of study at 17 colleges.