University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, commonly called UIUC, U of I or simply Illinois, is a public land-grant research university in the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign in Illinois, established in 1867 as the founding campus and flagship institution of the University of Illinois System伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（常简称 UIUC、U of I 或 Illinois）是位于伊利诺伊州厄巴纳与香槟两座姊妹城的公立赠地研究型大学，创办于 1867 年，是伊利诺伊大学系统的创校校区与旗舰学府

With 60,848 students in 2025, among them 38,572 undergraduates and 20,877 postgraduates, it is one of the largest public universities in the United States, holds 651 buildings on 6,370 acres, and was placed 74th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 20272025 年在校生 60,848 人，其中本科生 38,572 人、研究生 20,877 人，是美国规模最大的公立大学之一，校园拥有 651 座建筑、占地 6,370 英亩，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 74 位

History

• The university was one of thirty-seven institutions created under the first Morrill Land-Grant Act, which granted public land for colleges of agriculture and the mechanical arts across the United States, and Urbana was chosen as the site in 1867该校是依据第一部《莫里尔赠地法案》创办的三十七所院校之一，该法案为全美各地的农工学院拨出公共土地，1867 年厄巴纳被选为办学地点
• From the outset President John Milton Gregory wanted an institution firmly grounded in the liberal arts, which put him at odds with many residents and legislators who wanted classes devoted solely to industrial education首任校长约翰·米尔顿·格雷戈里从一开始就希望建立一所以博雅教育为根基的学府，这与许多只希望开设工业教育课程的居民和议员意见相左
• The university opened for classes on 2 March 1868 with two faculty members and seventy-seven students, and the library opened with the school in 1868 holding 1,039 volumes学校于 1868 年 3 月 2 日开课，当时只有两名教师与七十七名学生，图书馆也随学校在 1868 年开放，最初藏书 1,039 册
• In 1870 the Mumford House was built as a model farmhouse for the experimental farm and remains the oldest structure on campus, while the original University Hall of 1871 was the fourth building and stood where the Illini Union now stands1870 年建成的芒福德宅作为实验农场的样板农舍，至今仍是校园中最古老的建筑，而 1871 年的初代大学堂是校园第四座建筑，原址即今日伊利尼学生会所在
• In 1885 the Illinois Industrial University officially changed its name to the University of Illinois, reflecting its combination of agricultural, mechanical and liberal arts teaching1885 年伊利诺伊工业大学正式更名为伊利诺伊大学，以反映其农学、机械与博雅教育并重的办学格局
• During the presidency of Edmund J. James from 1904 to 1920 the university adopted the policy of building a massive research library and laid the foundation for the large Chinese international student population on campus through ties with the Chinese minister to the United States Wu Ting-Fang在埃德蒙·J·詹姆斯 1904 至 1920 年任校长期间，学校确立了建设大型研究图书馆的方针，并通过与中国驻美公使伍廷芳的联系，为校园庞大的中国留学生群体奠定了基础
• In 1916 St. Elmo Brady, working at the university, became the first African American in the United States to earn a doctorate in chemistry1916 年在该校工作的圣埃尔莫·布雷迪成为全美第一位取得化学博士学位的非裔美国人
• The Alma Mater statue by the alumnus Lorado Taft, a prominent landmark in front of Altgeld Hall, was unveiled on 11 June 1929 and was paid for by donations from the Alumni Fund and the classes of 1923 to 1929由校友洛拉多·塔夫特创作的母校雕像坐落于阿尔特盖尔德楼前，是校园的显著地标，于 1929 年 6 月 11 日揭幕，资金来自校友基金与 1923 至 1929 届的捐款
• The Great Depression slowed construction, but after the Second World War enrolment doubled and academic standing improved, with rapid growth in the graduate college and in federal support for scientific research大萧条使校园建设放缓，但第二次世界大战之后在校生人数翻倍、学术地位提升，研究生院与联邦科研资助都迅速扩张
• By 1967 the university system consisted of the main campus at Champaign-Urbana together with two Chicago campuses, and the main campus was formally named the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by 1977到 1967 年大学系统已包括香槟-厄巴纳主校区与两个芝加哥校区，主校区在 1977 年正式定名为伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校
• The word at was later dropped for marketing purposes by all campuses of the system in 2021, although the campus sits partly in Urbana and partly in Champaign系统的各校区后来在 2021 年出于品牌推广考虑去掉了「at」一词，尽管该校区的土地部分位于厄巴纳、部分位于香槟
• State support fell from 4.5 per cent of the state's tax appropriations in 1980 to 2.28 per cent in 2011, so that by 2012 nearly 84 per cent of the university budget came from sources other than the state州政府拨款占州税收拨款的比例由 1980 年的 4.5% 降至 2011 年的 2.28%，以致到 2012 年学校预算中近 84% 来自州财政以外的来源
• In 1998 the Hallene Gateway Plaza was dedicated around the original sandstone portal of University Hall, which had been the fourth building on campus1998 年落成的哈莱恩门广场以初代大学堂原有的砂岩门廊为核心，那座门廊曾是校园第四座建筑的遗存
• On 12 March 2015 the Board of Trustees approved the creation of a medical school, the first new college at Urbana-Champaign in sixty years, and the Carle Illinois College of Medicine began classes in 2018 as the world's first engineering-based medical school2015 年 3 月 12 日校董会批准设立医学院，这是厄巴纳-香槟校区六十年来首次增设学院，卡尔伊利诺伊医学院于 2018 年开课，是世界上第一所以工程为基础的医学院
• In 2008 the university became a signatory of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, and in 2010 it wrote its first Illinois Climate Action Plan aimed at carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner2008 年学校签署《美国高校校长气候承诺》，2010 年制定首份《伊利诺伊气候行动计划》，目标是在 2050 年或更早实现碳中和
• In December 2013 the university launched the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment to lead interdisciplinary research on energy and sustainability, and in 2022 it earned its fifth consecutive gold rating in the sustainability tracking system2013 年 12 月学校成立可持续发展、能源与环境研究所，主导能源与可持续领域的跨学科研究，并在 2022 年连续第五次获得可持续发展追踪评级体系的金级认证
• The campus today features twenty-seven buildings certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design programme, part of a long shift from a purely agricultural and industrial college to a broad research university如今校园内已有二十七座建筑获得能源与环境设计先锋认证，这体现了学校从单纯的农工学院向综合性研究型大学的长期转变
• The undergraduate library was built underground to preserve open space and to avoid casting shadows on the Morrow Plots, the oldest continually used experimental agricultural fields in the United States本科图书馆被设计为地下建筑，以保留地面空间并避免在莫罗试验田上投下阴影，后者是美国持续使用时间最长的农业试验田
• The university became a leading centre of computing: it hosted the PLATO computer-assisted instruction project, was a second-generation ARPAnet site in 1971, and was the first institution to license the UNIX operating system from Bell Labs学校成为计算领域的重要中心：它承载了 PLATO 计算机辅助教学项目，1971 年成为第二代阿帕网的节点，也是首家从贝尔实验室获得 UNIX 操作系统授权的机构

Academics

• The university is organised into sixteen schools and colleges, beginning with Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and Fine and Applied Arts, both founded in 1867 with the institution, and the Grainger College of Engineering of 1868学校设有十六个学院，最早的是与学校同在 1867 年成立的农业、消费与环境科学学院以及美术与应用艺术学院，1868 年又成立了格兰杰工程学院
• Further units include the School of Information Sciences of 1893, Applied Health Sciences of 1895, the College of Law of 1897, the College of Education of 1905, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of 1913 and the Gies College of Business of 1915其他单位包括 1893 年的信息科学学院、1895 年的应用健康科学学院、1897 年的法学院、1905 年的教育学院、1913 年的人文与科学学院以及 1915 年的吉斯商学院
• The most recent units are the College of Media of 1927, the School of Social Work of 1944, Labor and Employment Relations of 1946, Veterinary Medicine of 1948 and the Carle Illinois College of Medicine of 2015较晚设立的还有 1927 年的传媒学院、1944 年的社会工作学院、1946 年的劳动与就业关系学院、1948 年的兽医学院以及 2015 年的卡尔伊利诺伊医学院
• It offers more than 150 undergraduate and over a hundred graduate and professional programmes in fifteen academic units, together with online master's degrees in fields such as computer science, accountancy and business administration delivered in partnership with Coursera学校在十五个学术单位中开设一百五十多个本科项目与一百多个研究生及专业项目，并通过与 Coursera 合作提供计算机科学、会计与工商管理等领域的在线硕士学位
• As of 2025 the university has 2,548 faculty members and 8,803 administrative staff, an endowment of 3.8 billion dollars and an annual operating budget that exceeded two billion dollars in 2016截至 2025 年学校有 2,548 名教师与 8,803 名行政人员，捐赠基金达 38 亿美元，2016 年年度运营预算超过二十亿美元
• Research expenditure reached 652 million dollars in the 2019 fiscal year and the university is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity and as a member of the Association of American Universities2019 财年科研支出达 6.52 亿美元，学校被列为研究活动极强的 R1 级博士大学，也是美国大学协会的成员
• The campus hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which created the Mosaic graphical web browser in 1993 and the Apache HTTP server, and the university contracted with Cray to build the Blue Waters supercomputer校园承载着国家超级计算应用中心，该中心于 1993 年开发出图形化网页浏览器 Mosaic 与 Apache HTTP 服务器，学校还与克雷公司签约建造了「蓝水」超级计算机
• The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is the largest interdisciplinary facility on campus at 313,000 square feet and supports research in intelligent systems, neuroscience, molecular science and biomedical imaging贝克曼高级科学技术研究所建筑面积 313,000 平方英尺，是校园内规模最大的跨学科设施，支持智能系统、神经科学、分子科学与生物医学成像等研究
• The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology supports genomics research, and the Prairie Research Institute houses the Illinois Natural History Survey, the State Geological Survey, the State Water Survey and the State Archaeological Survey卡尔·R·沃斯基因组生物学研究所支持基因组学研究，草原研究所则下设伊利诺伊自然史调查所、州地质调查所、州水资源调查所与州考古调查所
• The university library system possesses the fourth-largest holdings among university libraries in the United States, with more than twenty departmental libraries holding over 24 million items including more than 12 million print volumes学校图书馆系统的藏书量在美国各大学图书馆中位列第四，二十多个院系图书馆共藏有 2,400 多万件资料，其中印刷本书籍超过 1,200 万册
• The Grainger Engineering Library is the largest public engineering library in the United States, and the university also runs the Spurlock Museum, the Krannert Art Museum and the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music格兰杰工程图书馆是美国规模最大的公共工程图书馆，学校还设有斯珀洛克博物馆、克兰纳特艺术博物馆以及苏萨档案与美国音乐中心
• Among the innovations developed at the university are the BCS theory of superconductivity proposed by John Bardeen with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, the light-emitting diode and the quantum-well laser of Nick Holonyak, and the JavaScript language of Brendan Eich在该校产生的创新包括约翰·巴丁与利昂·库珀及约翰·罗伯特·施里弗提出的超导 BCS 理论、尼克·霍洛尼亚克的发光二极管与量子阱激光器，以及布兰登·艾克的 JavaScript 语言
• Further breakthroughs include the integrated circuit of Jack Kilby, the magnetic resonance imaging method of Paul C. Lauterbur, the touchscreen and plasma display work of Donald Bitzer, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the NAMD molecular dynamics code其他突破还包括杰克·基尔比的集成电路、保罗·C·劳特伯的磁共振成像方法、唐纳德·比泽在触摸屏与等离子显示方面的成果、LLVM 编译器基础设施以及 NAMD 分子动力学程序
• Admission is competitive: the overall first-year admit rate for 2025 was 36.6 per cent, while the computer science programme, consistently ranked fifth in the nation, admitted only 7.4 per cent of applicants录取竞争激烈：2025 年本科新生总体录取率为 36.6%，而长期位居全美第五的计算机科学项目录取率仅为 7.4%
• In the national programme rankings, library and information studies has been placed first, computer science fifth, engineering seventh, chemistry and physics ninth, psychology eighth and accountancy among the strongest in the country在全国学科排名中，图书馆与信息研究曾列第一，计算机科学第五、工程第七、化学与物理第九、心理学第八，会计学也在全美名列前茅
• In global subject rankings the university has been placed fifth in electrical and electronic engineering, fourth in materials science, thirteenth in computer science and twentieth in agricultural sciences and space science在全球学科排名中，学校在电气与电子工程领域曾列第五、材料科学第四、计算机科学第十三，农业科学与空间科学则均列第二十
• The university was listed as a Public Ivy in The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities of 2001, and Illinois engineering was ranked thirteenth in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2016学校被 2001 年出版的《公立常春藤：美国旗舰公立大学》一书列入公立常春藤名单，其工程学科在 2016 年世界大学学术排名中位列世界第十三

Campus

• The main academic and research facilities are divided almost evenly between the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign, which together form the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area in central Illinois主要的教学与科研设施几乎平均分布在厄巴纳与香槟两座姊妹城之间，二者共同构成伊利诺伊州中部的香槟-厄巴纳都市区
• Four main quadrangles form the heart of the campus, arranged from north to south: the Beckman Quadrangle and the John Bardeen Quadrangle in the engineering campus, then the Main Quadrangle and the South Quadrangle四个主要方院构成校园核心，自北向南依次为工程校区的贝克曼方院与约翰·巴丁方院，以及随后的主方院与南方院
• The Beckman Quadrangle, named after the alumnus and pH meter inventor Arnold Orville Beckman, is composed chiefly of research units and laboratories and features a large solar calendar of an obelisk and copper fountains以校友、pH 计发明者阿诺德·奥维尔·贝克曼命名的贝克曼方院主要由研究单位与实验室组成，院内有一座由方尖碑与铜制喷泉构成的大型日晷
• Boneyard Creek flows through the John Bardeen Quadrangle parallel to Green Street, and the research fields of the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences stretch south from the twin cities into Savoy and Champaign County博尼雅德溪沿格林街平行穿过约翰·巴丁方院，农业、消费与环境科学学院的试验田则自两城向南延伸至萨沃伊与香槟县
• The university also maintains formal gardens and a conference centre at Allerton Park near Monticello, and the campus was named one of fifty college works of art by T. A. Gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art学校还在蒙蒂塞洛附近的阿勒顿公园保有规整园林与会议中心，校园被 T·A·盖恩斯在《作为艺术品的校园》一书中列为五十座大学艺术杰作之一
• Buildings and sites on the National Register of Historic Places include Harker Hall, the Astronomical Observatory, Louise Freer Hall, the Main Library, the Experimental Dairy Farm Historic District and the Morrow Plots列入国家史迹名录的建筑与地点包括哈克楼、天文台、路易丝·弗里尔楼、主图书馆、实验奶牛场历史街区与莫罗试验田
• The university offers housing to undergraduates through twenty-four residence halls in Urbana and Champaign, and incoming freshmen are required to live in student housing, whether campus-owned or certified, during their first year学校通过厄巴纳与香槟的二十四座宿舍楼为本科生提供住宿，新生第一年必须入住校方所有或认证的学生宿舍
• The university also maintains two graduate residence halls restricted to sophomores and above and three university-owned apartment complexes, and it was among the first universities to provide accommodation for students with disabilities学校另有两座仅限二年级及以上学生入住的研究生宿舍楼与三处校属公寓区，也是最早为残障学生提供住宿便利的大学之一
• The campus is served by the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, whose buses give students, faculty and staff unlimited access under a student-approved transportation fee, and Amtrak trains at Illinois Terminal connect the cities with Chicago and Carbondale校园交通由香槟-厄巴纳公共交通区运营，凭学生投票通过的交通费，学生与教职工可不限次乘坐，伊利诺伊枢纽站的美国国铁列车则把两城与芝加哥及卡本代尔连接起来
• Willard Airport, opened in 1954 and named after the former university president Arthur Cutts Willard, is one of the few airports owned by an educational institution and lies in Savoy a short distance from campus威拉德机场于 1954 年启用，以前校长阿瑟·卡茨·威拉德命名，是少数由教育机构拥有的机场之一，位于距校园不远的萨沃伊
• The campus has two main recreation facilities, the Activities and Recreation Center, renovated and reopened in August 2008 at a cost of 54.9 million dollars, and the Campus Recreation Center East校园有两处主要体育休闲设施，即 2008 年 8 月以 5,490 万美元翻修后重开的文体活动中心，以及东校园体育中心

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed 74th in the world, one of the strongest showings of a public university in the American Midwest在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校位列世界第 74 位，是美国中西部公立大学中的最强表现之一
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places Illinois 48th in the world, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it tied at 98th, while in the 2021 U.S. News national table its undergraduate programme was tied for 47th2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为世界第 48 位，2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为并列第 98 位，而在 2021 年美国国内榜单中其本科项目并列第 47 位
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2025 Illinois stands 53rd in the world, and the Center for World University Rankings placed it 20th in the world for 2019-2020在 2025 年世界大学学术排名中，伊利诺伊位列世界第 53 位，世界大学排名中心则曾将其列为 2019 至 2020 年度世界第 20 位
• The OpenAlex database attributes 356,816 works to the university with 34,103,746 citations, one of the largest citation totals of any public university in the United StatesOpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 356,816 篇成果、被引 34,103,746 次，其被引总量在美国公立大学中位居前列
• As of 2019 the alumni, faculty and researchers of the university included twenty-four Nobel laureates, of whom eleven were alumni, together with twenty-seven Pulitzer Prize winners, two Fields Medallists and two Turing Award winners截至 2019 年，该校的校友、教师与研究人员中共有二十四位诺贝尔奖得主（其中十一位为校友）、二十七位普利策奖得主、两位菲尔兹奖得主与两位图灵奖得主
• John Bardeen is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 for the transistor and in 1972 for the BCS theory, and he did so while on the faculty of the university约翰·巴丁是唯一两度获得诺贝尔物理学奖的人，1956 年因晶体管、1972 年因 BCS 理论获奖，两次获奖时他都在该校任教
• In 2003 two faculty members of the university won Nobel Prizes in different disciplines, Paul C. Lauterbur in physiology or medicine and Anthony Leggett in physics2003 年该校两位教师在不同学科获得诺贝尔奖，分别是获生理学或医学奖的保罗·C·劳特伯与获物理学奖的安东尼·莱格特
• In the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings of 2018 the university was placed 32nd in the world, and Illinois engineering was ranked thirteenth in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2016在 2018 年泰晤士高等教育世界声誉排名中，该校位列世界第 32 位，其工程学科在 2016 年世界大学学术排名中位列世界第十三
• Illinois has been described as a world-leading magnet for engineering and the sciences, and the National Science Foundation ranked it 37th in the nation for research spending in 2018, when its research and development expenditure was 625 million dollars伊利诺伊被视为工程与科学的全球重镇，美国国家科学基金会曾把其 2018 年的研发支出列为全美第 37 位，当年研发投入为 6.25 亿美元
• The Princeton Review ranked Illinois first among the top party schools in its 2016 list, and Kiplinger's Personal Finance rated it 12th among 174 best values in public colleges in 2019《普林斯顿评论》曾把伊利诺伊列入 2016 年「派对大学」榜首，而《吉普林个人理财》在 2019 年将其列为 174 所公立大学中最具价值院校的第 12 位

Student life

• The motto of the university is the English phrase Learning and Labor, which expresses its founding ideal of joining academic study with practical work学校校训为英文「Learning and Labor」，即「学习与劳动」，表达其把学术研习与实务劳作相结合的立校理想
• The university has more than one thousand active registered student organisations, presented at the beginning of each academic year during Quad Day, and its spirit is carried by three songs, the school song Illinois Loyalty, the fight song Oskee Wow Wow and the alma mater Hail to the Orange学校拥有一千多个注册学生社团，每学年开学时通过「方院日」集中展示，其精神由三首歌曲承载，即校歌「Illinois Loyalty」、战歌「Oskee Wow Wow」与校歌谣「Hail to the Orange」
• The Daily Illini, a student-run newspaper published since 1871, is issued by the non-profit Illini Media Company, which also operates the student-run commercial radio station WPGU 107.1 FM《伊利尼日报》是自 1871 年起出版的学生自办报纸，由非营利的伊利尼传媒公司发行，该公司还运营学生自办的商业电台 WPGU 107.1 FM
• The Varsity Men's Glee Club, founded in 1886, is one of the oldest glee clubs in the United States and the oldest registered student organisation on campus, and the university has the largest chapter of Alpha Phi Omega with more than 340 active members创建于 1886 年的校男声合唱团是美国历史最悠久的合唱团之一，也是校内最早注册的学生组织，学校还拥有成员逾 340 人的全美最大 Alpha Phi Omega 分会
• There are fifty-nine fraternities and thirty-eight sororities on campus, and many of the fraternity and sorority houses stand on the National Register of Historic Places校园内有五十九个兄弟会与三十八个姐妹会，其中不少会所已被列入国家史迹名录
• The university has rich athletic traditions as the Fighting Illini of the Big Ten Conference, and its football team claims the first homecoming game, played on 15 October 1910 against the University of Chicago Maroons校队以「战斗伊利尼」之名参加十大联盟赛事，体育传统深厚，其橄榄球队声称 1910 年 10 月 15 日对阵芝加哥大学栗色队的比赛是史上首场校友返校赛
• The Fighting Illini have won five national football championships and appeared in the Rose Bowl in 1947, 1952 and 1964, while the men's basketball team tied the record for most victories in a season with a 37-2 run in 2005「战斗伊利尼」曾五夺全国橄榄球冠军，并先后于 1947 年、1952 年与 1964 年出战玫瑰碗，其男篮更在 2005 赛季以 37 胜 2 负追平单季最多胜场纪录
• Illinois was the first college in the United States to establish a wheelchair basketball team, in 1948, and a women's wheelchair basketball team, in 1970, and it is one of ten official training sites of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee伊利诺伊是美国第一所组建轮椅篮球队（1948 年）与女子轮椅篮球队（1970 年）的高校，也是美国奥委会与残奥委会的十个官方训练基地之一
• The campus has no official mascot since Chief Illiniwek, used from 1926 to 2007, was retired after protests that its use of Native American regalia promoted ethnic stereotypes, and some students and alumni now campaign for the belted kingfisher自 1926 至 2007 年使用的吉祥物「伊利尼酋长」因被指以美洲原住民服饰强化族裔刻板印象而退役后，校园便无官方吉祥物，部分师生与校友现正推动以带纹翠鸟取而代之

Notable people

• John Milton Gregory, the first president of the university from 1867 to 1880, insisted on grounding the new institution in the liberal arts against pressure for purely industrial teaching, and Edmund J. James, president from 1904 to 1920, built its research library and its ties with China1867 至 1880 年出任首任校长的约翰·米尔顿·格雷戈里顶住只办工业教育的压力，坚持为新学府奠定博雅教育的根基，1904 至 1920 年任校长的埃德蒙·J·詹姆斯则奠定了研究型图书馆与对华联系的基础
• Wu Ting-Fang, the Chinese minister to the United States, worked with President James in the early twentieth century to open the university to Chinese students, beginning a connection that later made Illinois the American university with the largest enrolment of students from China中国驻美公使伍廷芳在二十世纪初与詹姆斯校长合作，推动学校向中国学生敞开大门，由此开启的联系使伊利诺伊后来成为全美中国学生人数最多的大学
• John Bardeen, a faculty member from 1951 to 1991, won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 for the transistor and in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for the BCS theory of superconductivity1951 至 1991 年在校任教的约翰·巴丁两度获得诺贝尔物理学奖，1956 年因晶体管获奖，1972 年与利昂·库珀及约翰·罗伯特·施里弗因超导 BCS 理论再度获奖
• Paul C. Lauterbur, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for the development of magnetic resonance imaging, and Anthony Leggett, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, were both faculty members因磁共振成像技术的开发于 2003 年共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的保罗·C·劳特伯，以及同年共同获得诺贝尔物理学奖的安东尼·莱格特，都是该校教师
• Jack Kilby, a graduate of 1947, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit, which laid the basis of the modern electronics industry1947 年毕业的杰克·基尔比因参与发明集成电路于 2000 年获诺贝尔物理学奖，集成电路奠定了现代电子工业的基础
• Nick Holonyak, who took his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the university between 1950 and 1954, invented the first practical light-emitting diode and the quantum-well laser, and Brendan Eich, who took a master's degree in 1986, created the JavaScript language1950 至 1954 年间在该校取得学士、硕士与博士学位的尼克·霍洛尼亚克发明了第一只实用发光二极管与量子阱激光器，1986 年取得硕士学位的布兰登·艾克则创造了 JavaScript 语言
• Fazlur Rahman Khan, who earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in structural engineering at the university, was the structural designer of the Willis Tower, the John Hancock Center and the Burj Khalifa, and Richard Hamming took his doctorate in mathematics there in 1942在该校取得两个硕士学位与结构工程博士学位的法兹勒·拉赫曼·汗，是威利斯大厦、约翰·汉考克中心与哈利法塔的结构设计师，理查德·汉明则于 1942 年在该校取得数学博士学位
• Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Netscape and Mozilla and later the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, and Larry Ellison, who co-founded the software company Oracle, both studied at the university共同创办网景与 Mozilla、后来又创办风投公司安德森·霍洛维茨的马克·安德森，以及共同创办软件公司甲骨文的拉里·埃里森，都曾在该校就读
• Jerry Sanders co-founded the chip-maker AMD in 1969, Thomas Siebel founded the software company Siebel Systems in 1993 and has given nearly 150 million dollars to the university, and Hugh Hefner founded Playboy Enterprises in 1953杰里·桑德斯于 1969 年共同创办芯片制造商超微半导体，托马斯·西贝尔于 1993 年创办软件公司西贝尔系统并向学校捐赠近 1.5 亿美元，休·赫夫纳则于 1953 年创办《花花公子》企业
• Steve Chen, born in Taiwan, studied computer science at the university and in 2005 co-founded YouTube, one of the Chinese-related figures in a campus whose Chinese student community has long been the largest of any American university生于台湾的陈士骏在该校学习计算机科学，并于 2005 年共同创办 YouTube，他是这所长期拥有全美最大中国学生群体之校园中的华人相关人物之一
• Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, took his master's degree in 1999 and his doctorate in 2001 from the university's economics department2007 至 2017 年任厄瓜多尔总统的拉斐尔·科雷亚，于 1999 年与 2001 年先后在该校经济系取得硕士与博士学位
• Nathan C. Ricker, who attended Illinois, became in 1873 the first person in the United States to graduate with a certificate in architecture, and Mary L. Page, the first woman to earn a degree in architecture, also graduated from the university曾在伊利诺伊就读的内森·C·里克尔于 1873 年成为全美首位取得建筑学证书的毕业生，首位获得建筑学学位的女性玛丽·L·佩奇也从该校毕业