ILLINOIS, University of, the State Uni versity, situated at Urbana. It was founded in acceptance of the national land grant of 1862 (see COLLEGES. LAND Ga.Abrr) and was incor porated in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial Uni versity. It was opened 2 March 1868, with a faculty of three and about 50 students. In 1870 women were admitted; in 1877 the State legislature granted power to confer degrees; and in 1885 the name was changed to the Uni versity of Illinois. It was the first American university to give shop instruction, a mechanical shop being equipped in 1870. It is governed by a board of trustees, consisting of three ex officio members, including the governor, and nine elective members. The undergraduate de partment includes the college of liberal arts and sciences, of engineering and of agriculture; corresponding graduate courses are given; other departments of the are the State library school, the school of music, the college of law, the college of medicine, the college of dentistry and the school of pharmacy, the three latter being situated in Chicago. The
university has a number of valuable scientific collections; the agricultural experiment station, organized under the Federal law of 1887, is controlled by the university trustees, and is supported by State and national appropriation; the general university library numbers 325,000 volumes besides pamphlets; other libraries un der university control are the library of State Laboratory of Natural History (8,000 volumes and 39,266 pamphlets), the library of the col lege of law and special collections in connec tion with the professional schools. The annual income amounts to $2,500,000, mostly from a one-mill tax; the number of students in all departments was 6,150 on 1 Nov. 1915, the number of faculty and administrative officers, 780.