University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign IL (110 miles south of Chicago). Public R1 flagship. $4.2B endowment. $800M+ annual research. Grainger College of Engineering — ranked #5 undergraduate engineering (US News 2025). Siebel School of Computing and Data Science — #5 CS nationally. NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) — released Mosaic web browser (1993), pioneered the internet. Illinois Ventures tech transfer. Q-NEXT DOE National Quantum Information Science Center (with Argonne). Founding partner of Duality quantum accelerator (with UChicago Polsky Center + Chicago Quantum Exchange). IQUIST — Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center. Thomas Siebel (C3.ai founder) and Ray Ozzie (Lotus Notes, Microsoft CTO) are notable alumni.