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Chicago’s Innovation UniversityENGINEERING SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE LAWBUSINESS APPLIED TECHNOLOGY DESIGNPSYCHOLOGY HUMAN SCIENCESOne of “America’sMost BeautifulCollege Campuses.”— Forbes magazine

Chicago.Opportunity.Chicago offers students an unparalleledenvironment to study, conduct research,and explore a diverse range ofintellectual and professional pursuits.From medicine to financial markets andfrom high-tech startups to nonprofits,Chicago provides countless pathwaysin life. The city’s burgeoning techecosystem feeds growth in multiplesectors, including science, law,management, energy, and marketingand creative industries.Chicago is also a friendly and charmingcity of neighborhoods, rich with culturalattractions, including museums,music venues, parks and nature,and professional sports venues, plusmany other opportunities to exploresomething new.OUR CAMPUS COMMUNITYEven though you have Chicago as yourplayground, there’s so much to do onIllinois Tech’s 120-acre campus,too! You can check out a comedian,go bowling, or play video games inThe Bog. Attend a lecture by a visitingarchitect. Play flag football in the Quad,swim some laps in Keating SportsCenter, and play tennis on our courts.Grab a coffee and squeeze in someping-pong in The McCormick TribuneCampus Center.GET OUT AND GET AROUNDEvery Illinois Tech undergrad receives aVentra U-Pass, which gives you unlimitedaccess to CTA public transportationcitywide. Take the “L” downtown. Exploreone of Chicago’s seemingly endlessnumber of neighborhoods. Your U-Passwill get you there. As an added bonus forour students, Illinois Tech offers a freeshuttle bus service from Mies Campus toDowntown Campus and two downtownMetra train stations.Want to create your own route? Hop on aDivvy bike share at one of the on-campusbike stations and cruise anywhere you like.

To O’HareWrigley Field(Cubs)AddisonLake MichiganChicago13 city blockswith 460 stores,275 restaurants,theaters, and more!MagnificentMileGrandWillis TowerNavy PierThe LoopMillennium ParkDowntown ChicagoArt Instituteof ChicagoBuckinghamFountainGiordano’sPizzaShedd AquariumAdler PlanetariumJewel-Osco(grocery store)TargetRooseveltField MuseumSoldier Field(Bears)TheaterCermak/McCormick Place31st Street BeachCermak/Chinatown18.5-mile lakefront bike pathMETRA Rock Island Line:Lovana S. “Lou” Jones Station at 35thSox-35thTo Midway35th-Bronzeville-IITPearl’s PlaceGuaranteed Rate Field(soul food)(White Sox)Museum ofScience & IndustryStarbucksIllinois Institute of TechnologyThe McCormick Tribune Campus CenterCHICAGO

Return on InvestmentValueIllinois Tech is consistently namedas an educational “best value” byU.S. News & World Report, the PrincetonReview, and Fiske Guide to Colleges.We’re #1 in Illinois and #75 in the U.S.for mid-career earnings of graduateswho have received a bachelor’s degree(PayScale’s “2017 College Return onInvestment Report”).We’re among the privateuniversities in Kiplinger’s “BestCollege Values 2017.”Noteworthy College FactsThe Stuart Schoolof Business M.S. inFinance programis ranked #5 in theUnited States and#42 globally overallby the FinancialTimes (2017).U.S. News & World Reportranked Chicago-Kent Collegeof Law’s Trial AdvocacyProgram #4 in the U.S. (2018).Stuart’s Master of MathematicalFinance program is ranked#15 in the U.S. among financialengineering programs byTFE Times (2017).Illinois Tech is thefirst university inthe U.S. to offer theMaster of IntellectualProperty Managementand Markets, a unique,interdisciplinarydegree program.

ALUMNIINNOVATORSKnow Our Change-MakersWhen you graduate you’ll join Illinois Tech alumni aroundthe world in the get-ahead-and-do-big-things club. Andwhen we say around the world, we mean all 3,959 miles of it.Our alumni are in more than 128 countries and all 50 states.Marvin Camras (EE ’40, M.S. ’42)—Pioneer of magnetic recordingGloria Ray Karlmark (CHEM, MATH ’65)—Part of the Little Rock Nine, who stood upagainst segregation in Arkansas schoolsMarty Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57)—Inventor of the cell phoneAnita Burke (ME ’90)—Vehicle chief engineer for the GMC Canyon andChevrolet Colorado trucksEd Kaplan (ME ’65)—Pioneer in barcode technologyRajeev Chandrasekhar (M.S. CS ’88)—Member of the team that developed thePentium chipSusan Solomon (CHEM ’77)—Discovered manmade chlorofluorocarbons were destroyingthe ozone layerVictor Tsao (M.S. CS ’80)—Co-founder of LinksysLois Graham (M.S. ME ’49, Ph.D. ’59)—The first woman in the U.S. to earn a doctorate inmechanical engineeringDavid Edwards (Ph.D. CHBE ’87)—Harvard University professor and founder of LeLaboratoire, a cultural center fostering experiments at the frontier of sciencePhyllis Lambert (M.S. ARCH ’63)—Design visionary behind New York’s Seagram Buildingand founder of the Canadian Centre for ArchitectureLeonard Reiffel (EE ’47, M.S. ’48, Ph.D. ’53)—Inventor of the Telestrator (used to highlightsports plays on TV)Jason Resch (CS ’06)—Software engineer with more than 270 patents to his nameSam Karlin (MATH ’44, M.S. ’45)—National Medal of Science recipient who contributed tosoftware used to first map DNA sequencesTim Zamb (BIOL ’68, Ph.D. ’78)—Head of AIDS Vaccine Design and DevelopmentLaboratory of the International AIDS Vaccine InitiativeJohn P. Calamos Sr. (ECON ’63, M.B.A. ’70)—Founder/chairman/CEO of Calamos AssetManagement, Inc.Jason Tenenbaum (AERO ’07)—Engineer for SpaceX who worked on theDragon spacecraftRobin Chaurasiya (PSYCH ’06)—Finalist for the 2016 Global Teacher PrizeAlireza Khaligh (Ph.D. EE ’06)—University of Maryland professor with more than 5 millionin research grants and an expert for the National Science Foundation’s Energy, Power,Control, and Networks ProgramFlorence Knoll Bassett (ARCH ’41)—Co-founder of Knoll, considered a pioneer of modernworkplace and residential designAbdur Chowdhury (Ph.D. CS ’01)—Former chief architect of search for AOL; co-foundedthe search engine Summize and was chief scientist of Twitter upon its purchase ofSummize; co-founder of Pushd, which develops contextual mobile applicationsCountless civic and government leaders including two current members of theU.S. Congress

ED KAPLAN FAMILY INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIONAND TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIPOnce completed, this new facility will be an innovation hub on campus focused on boldthinking and transitioning new ideas into products and processes. The Kaplan Institute willhouse workshops, media labs, classrooms, collaborative hubs, emerging technologies, andmaker spaces, and incorporate design training into courses taught within it.Experiential Learning at Illinois TechHands-down the best at hands-onExperience matters. Your ability to apply skills to real-world projects will make you asought-after professional after you graduate. Employers and entrepreneurs alike tellus that Illinois Tech graduates stand out because they can do more than just reciteinformation and ideas—they know how to actually do things. Our one-of-a-kind, handson learning opportunities prepare you to be a dynamic, problem-solving leader—a knower and a doer.IPRO ProgramStarted in 1995, Illinois Tech’s InterprofessionalProjects (IPRO) Program is one of only a fewprograms like it in the U.S. In IPRO you’ll work withother students from various majors to develop asolution to real-world problems.Recent IPRO student teams have: Developed a prototype desalination device for the SaharaBuilt sustainable water distribution systems in HaitiStarted a “smart recycling” system on campusDeveloped renovations for a historic neighborhood theaterReimagined the failed 1940s Antarctic Snow CruiserDeveloped an assistive device to help visually impaired people swimDevised a mobile operating room for disaster relief in third-world countries

Faculty andResearch.Access andImpact.Through our academic programs, researchcenters, and institutes, we offer students theopportunity to participate in hands-on andboundary-breaking research. Illinois Tech’spartnerships with locally based nationallaboratories such as Argonne and Fermilab,leading medical schools, tech incubators,and government organizations provide ourstudents unparalleled experiences andtraining at world-class facilities.95%OF ILLINOIS TECH FACULTYMEMBERS HOLD THE HIGHESTDEGREES IN THEIR DISCIPLINE.UNIVERSITYTECHNOLOGY PARKAT IITChicago’s premier techpark, UTP is located oncampus and housescompanies in life sciences,engineering, computerscience, and energy, manyof which employ IllinoisTech students. One ofUTP’s first tenants was thecloud storage companyCleversafe, which employsseveral Illinois Techgraduates and was soldto IBM.IIT RESEARCHINSTITUTEFounded in 1936 asthe research armof the university,this independent,not-for-profit contractresearch organizationspecializes inpreclinical safety andtoxicology, inhalationtoxicology, biodefense,and infectious diseasestudies, and evaluatesthe efficacy andpreclinical safety ofcancer therapeutics.

Armour College of Engineering Illinois Tech’s eight academic colleges offermore than 190 different degree options.Visit admissions.iit.edu for full programdetails of both our undergraduate andgraduate degree program offerings. Academic DegreePrograms Advanced ManufacturingAerospace EngineeringArchitectural EngineeringAdditive ManufacturingAutomation and Control SystemsBiological EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringBiomedical Images and SignalsBiomedicineChemical and Biological EngineeringChemical EngineeringCivil EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputational Chemical EngineeringComputational EngineeringComputational MechanicsConstruction Engineering and ManagementDigital ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringElectrical and Computer EngineeringElectricity MarketsEnergy SystemsEnergy Conservation and BuildingsEnergy Generation and SustainabilityEngineering ManagementEnvironmental EngineeringFood Process EngineeringGeotechnical EngineeringManufacturing EngineeringMaterials Science and EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMechanical and Aerospace EngineeringMonitoring and Control of Urban SystemsNetwork EngineeringOptimization, Machine Vision, andDecision MakingPharmaceutical EngineeringPower EngineeringProduct Design and DevelopmentProject ManagementPublic WorksStructural EngineeringTelecommunication and Software EngineeringTransportation EngineeringUrban Systems EngineeringUrban Transportation SystemsVLSI and MicroelectronicsDoctoral DegreeMaster of Science (Thesis)Professional Master’s (Non-Thesis)Bachelor’s DegreeCo-Terminal Degree ProgramDual Degree Program