Driving Around University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus in 4k Video
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2023
- Filmed on Sunday, March 19, 2023, I drive around the UIUC Campus to see what's happening.
If you want to control the camera and take a look around, check out my 360° video of UIUC: • Driving Around Univers...
Enrolling over 56,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the country.
The university contains 16 schools and colleges and offers more than 150 undergraduate and over 100 graduate programs of study. The university holds 651 buildings on 6,370 acres and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $2 billion.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also operates a Research Park home to innovation centers for over 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations, including Abbott, AbbVie, Caterpillar, Capital One, Dow, State Farm, John Deere, GSI, and Yahoo, among others.
As of September 2022, the alumni, faculty members, or researchers of the university include 30 Nobel laureates, 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, two Fields medalists, and two Turing Award winners. Illinois athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Fighting Illini.
The University of Illinois, originally named "Illinois Industrial University", was one of the 37 universities created under the first Morrill Land-Grant Act, which provided public land for the creation of agricultural and industrial colleges and universities across the United States. Among several cities, Urbana was selected in 1867 as the site for the new school. From the beginning, President John Milton Gregory's desire to establish an institution firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition was at odds with many state residents and lawmakers who wanted the university to offer classes based solely around "industrial education". The university opened for classes on March 2, 1868, and had two faculty members and 77 students.
By 1967, the University of Illinois system consisted of a main campus in Champaign-Urbana and two Chicago campuses, Chicago Circle (UICC) and Medical Center (UIMC), and people began using "Urbana-Champaign" or the reverse to refer to the main campus specifically. The university name officially changed to the "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" by 1977. While this was a reversal of the commonly used designation for the metropolitan area (Champaign-Urbana), most of the campus is located in Urbana. The name change established a separate identity for the main campus within the University of Illinois system, which today includes campuses in Springfield (UIS) and Chicago (UIC).
The main research and academic facilities are divided almost evenly between the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign, which form part of the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area. Four main quads compose the center of the university and are arranged from north to south.
The campus is known for its landscape and architecture, as well as distinctive landmarks. It was identified as one of 50 college or university "works of art" by T.A. Gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art.
The campus also has a number of buildings and sites on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places including Harker Hall, Astronomical Observatory, Louise Freer Hall, the Main Library, the Experimental Dairy Farm Historic District, and the Morrow Plots. The University of Illinois Willard Airport is one of the few airports owned by an educational institution.
The 2015 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report categorizes the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as "more selective." For the Class of 2025 (enrolled Fall 2021), UIUC received 47,593 applications and accepted 28,395 (59.7%). Of those accepted, 8,303 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 29.2%. UIUC's freshman retention rate is 93.5%, with 84.9% going on to graduate within six years.
Admissions differ greatly between the different colleges in the university. While the overall admit rate is 37.5%, the most selective college, the College of Engineering, has an admit rate of 23.2%. Certain in-demand majors like Computer Science which is known for its Top 5 program in the nation, can be extremely competitive with an acceptance rate of less than 6.8%.
In the 2021 U.S. News & World Report "America's Best Colleges" report, UIUC's undergraduate program was ranked tied for 47th among national universities and tied for 15th among public universities, with its undergraduate engineering program ranked tied for 6th in the U.S. among schools whose highest degree is a doctorate.
As of spring 2018, the university had 45,813 students. As of 2015, over 10,000 students were international students, and of them 5,295 were Mainland Chinese. The gender breakdown is 55% men, 45% women. #driving #travel #drivingtour
Great driving video throughout beautiful day Urbana - Champaign Illinois 👍 ☀️
Just graduated and already feeling nostalgic. This video got me haha 🥲
Nice day for a ride, thanks.
That was a JUMP SCARE at 20:40 💀
Graduated in 2016, you wouldn't recognize campus town anymore. RIP Firehouse and Clys.
The campus has certainly changed from when I graduated back in the 1980s.
Nice tour. Don't care much for all the new high-rise apartment buildings. Also, it's clear that a lot of money is being spent on new construction, and not so much on repairing
crummy streets, of which there are many.
if you add a romantic background music, that will make the video more fun to enjoy...
Looks deserted ! Where is everyone?
It was spring break on a Sunday. Normally the place would be crawling with students.
Growing up in Champaign in the 70s and 80s...Green St looks awful with the tall buildings...they ruined the beautiful campus town that was once there.
I've been to dozens of college campuses, trust me it's still one of the best around.
Far far too boring
How dare you
@@exploreusacities I don’t think 🤔 I care for your attitude! Urbana champagne is notorious for being boring, I am sympathetic to the people living there 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am shocked and appalled! How dare you!
@@exploreusacities EASY TIGER 🥰😘😉
You are making me cry with your meanness. 😢