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• SIU Carbondale is a doctoral research university enrolling student from all 50 states and approximately 100 countries. We offer about 100 undergraduate degrees, with more than 170 specializations, and over 100 minors. Our programs also include about 80 master’s degrees and more than 30 doctoral degrees, in addition to professional degrees in law and medicine.
• In 2022, The Princeton Review included SIU Carbondale among its “Best of the Midwest” — just 23% of the nation's four-year colleges.
• In 2019, SIU Carbondale joined other state institutions as a hub in the Illinois Innovation Network, an initiative to harness the research expertise of Illinois universities to drive the state’s economic growth.
• SIU ranks in the top 4.2 percent of 20,000 institutions of higher learning in the Center for World University Rankings for 2020-2021. SIU ranks No. 837 in the world and No. 194 nationally.
• Noting the university’s “unique out-of-the-box passions and thinking,” progressive attitude toward students with a variety of learning backgrounds and Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education classification as a “high research” institution, SIU Carbondale is No. 8 among College Gazette’s “10 Best ‘Hidden Gem’ Public Universities in the U.S.”
• SIU has strong federal research partnerships with agencies including the Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NASA.
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