Welcome to the College of Science and Letters
Welcome to the College of Science and Letters, the academic core of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Through its six departments, CSL awards undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees and provides required courses for nearly every IIT undergraduate major.
With more than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 100 full-time faculty, CSL is IIT's second-largest college in number of students and largest in number of student credit hours taught. Its more than 10,000 alumni work in business, government and academic institutions all over the world.
Today, CSL is enjoying enrollment growth, significant capital improvements, and increased research productivity. Excellent academic programs are the chief draw. But there are many others.
CSL is a community where students are known as individuals, have the opportunity participate in research even as undergraduates and can benefit from our connections with national labs including Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, as well as local partners like the Chicago Public Schools. We also have relationships throughout the Chicago area for internships, externships, and co-ops, and connections in Chicago and nationally for employment opportunities.
Our flexible, interdisciplinary approach to studies allows students to explore interests outside of traditional degree programs, participate in IPROs, pursue multidisciplinary studies and majors, and learn in a manner appropriate for today's scientific, technical and business environment.
Finally, we have an outstanding faculty. The quality of our students' education is directly related to the quality of the instruction they receive. We are proud of our faculty efforts - in the classroom, in their research, and as leaders in their respective fields nationally and internationally. As we have said in the past: We take superb students and make them better. Our outstanding educators and researchers challenge the best to become great.
