Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University--Carbondale is a public institution that was founded in 1869. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 13,351, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 1,136 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Southern Illinois University--Carbondale's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 189.

 

All the brains of a nationally ranked research university and all the heart of a small college. This is just another way of saying that, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, our intense academics are powered by relationships. Our faculty are some of the most cited experts in their fields and they still give students the personal attention they deserve.

So no matter how far you want to go, SIU can shrink the distance between where you are and where you want to be. Here are just some of the ways we stand out:

-We are ranked in the top 4% of higher education institutions by the National Science Foundation

-Students participate in research as early as freshman year

-More than 80 percent of our undergraduate class sections have fewer than 30 

students

-We offer more than 200 majors in agricultural sciences, applied arts and sciences, engineering, business, education and human services, liberal arts, mass communication and media arts, science, law and medicine.