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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences
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The iSchool is an established national leader in both groundbreaking information science research and the preparation of leading information professionals. Innovative research in a wide variety of areas is carried out by faculty and doctoral students and supported by two iSchool research centers: the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship and the Center for Children’s Books. Our faculty have key roles in national initiatives and professional societies and our close relationships with many national and international cultural and scientific institutions ensure that our research engages critical societal challenges. The faculty is highly interdisciplinary, with backgrounds in information science, library science, informatics, computer science, engineering science, physics, law, psychology, English, medieval studies, philosophy, sociology, statistics, science and technology studies, and history of American civilization, and they hold additional appointments in other university units.
The School offers a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, Master of Science in Information Management, a Master of Science in Bioinformatics, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and a CAS in Digital Libraries, a Ph.D., and has a School Librarian Licensure Program. The School also participates in a campus-wide undergraduate Informatics minor and the Ph.D. in Informatics, and teaches courses in the Master of Computer Science – Data Science program. The School’s new BS in Information Sciences begins in the fall of 2020.
The Urbana-Champaign campus offers a wide range of state-of-the-art research support facilities including world-renowned research institutes such as the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. The University Library, with one of the largest collections in North America, has leading R&D initiatives in metadata, discovery, and digital/data curation and preservation. The Urbana-Champaign area offers the residential advantages of a thriving micro-urban university city, excellent cultural opportunities, and a high quality of life as reflected by its ranking as one of 10 Great Neighborhoods in America by the American Planning Association: http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/neighborhoods/2007/westurbana.htm.