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Opportunity + Outcomes
Dynamic experiential opportunities plus high starting salaries add up to significant outcomes for Illinois Tech graduates.
In Illinois for Highest Eight-Year Median Graduate Earnings
—Carnegie Foundation/American Council on Education 2025
In Illinois and #22 in the U.S. for Best Salaries of Graduates
—Wall Street Journal, Best Colleges in the U.S. 2026
Best Value School
—U.S. News & World Report 2026
Elevate Your Future
No matter where you are in your educational, professional, or personal journey, Illinois Tech provides you with a world-class, tech-focused education. You’ll be empowered through guaranteed access to hands-on experiences that prepare you with the innovation skills you need to thrive in the careers of the future. The results speak for themselves: Illinois Tech graduates have high employment rates and earn starting salaries well above the national average. Are you ready to elevate your future?
Undergraduate Programs
Illinois Tech offers 50-plus undergraduate majors and special degree programs in STEM-focused disciplines that provide an educational experience to prepare you for fields that are shaping the future.
Graduate Programs
Whether you’re looking to further your career, launch a cutting-edge business, or conduct Ph.D. research, Illinois Tech offers 100-plus industry-aligned graduate degrees to prepare your for careers of the future.
Education for All
Learning doesn’t have an age, experience, or skill restriction. Whether you’re a young learner looking for a pre-college experience or an adult looking to switch careers, Illinois Tech has the path to meet you where you are.
Illinois Tech inspired Rohit Prasad to follow his passions. Advice he received from a graduate school adviser allowed him to thrive and make lasting contributions to the future of AI.
Rohit Prasad (M.S. Electrical Engineering ’99)
Challenging courses, real-world projects, and faculty mentors have taken Efe Uduigwomen’s mastery of data-driven marketing—and her career—to new levels.
Efearue Uduigwomen (M.S. MANL ’23)
Judge Robert J. White '10 was recently put on the bench after being nominated by President Joe Biden. Before all the pomp and circumstance, he was a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Robert J. White LAW '10
As a leadership expert, Ashley Aguilar uses her expertise to create a tool designed to assess and develop leadership on a global scale.
Ashley Aguilar (PSYC ’21, M.S. IPSY ’23)
Using their garage as a makeshift workshop, Victor Tsao and his wife created Linksys, which they turned into a global wireless computer network leader.
Victor Tsao (M.S. C.S. ’81)
Juliane Wolf grew up in Germany surrounded by architects and came to Illinois Tech because its Bauhausian and Miesian ties. It also where she also met Jeanne Gang.
Juliane Wolf (ARCH ’01)
Illinois Tech the First U.S. University Approved to Establish a Campus in India
India’s University Grants Commission has granted Illinois Tech the approval to open a new campus in Mumbai—making it the first U.S. university authorized to establish a degree-granting campus in India. Illinois Tech Mumbai, slated to open in fall 2026, will offer a range of undergraduate and graduate program in high-demand fields such as computer science, data science, and business.
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“I Wouldn’t Have a Job Lined Up Without Elevate”
Students at Illinois Tech get hands-on with their future through our one-of-a-kind Elevate program, which guarantees access to experiential opportunities such as internships, research, competitions, and more.
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Explore Our Campus
Less than a mile from beautiful Lake Michigan, our historic Mies Campus was voted as one of the country's “most beautiful college campuses.” Find out why on a campus tour. You can also attend a virtual information session or check out our virtual tour.
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Beautiful Chicago, Amazing Chicago
From its subway to the tops of its skyscrapers, our hometown of Chicago is a friendly, exciting global city with a spirit and style all its own.
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News
Time Magazine Ranks Illinois Tech Among Top 100 Universities in the US
Illinois Tech has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the United States in the inaugural World’s Top Universities ranking released on January 28, 2026, by TIME magazine in partnership with...
$2 Million SPARC Scholarship Fund Opens Doors to Computing Education
A $2 million National Science Foundation grant will help Illinois Tech fulfill its academic mission to make its highly relevant, tech-focused education even more accessible over the next five years...
Student Innovators Shine at Grainger Computing Innovation Prize Competition
A team of Illinois Tech engineering students, who developed sensors for sewer drain covers that will help mitigate flooding, earned the $15,000 first-place award at the fifth annual Grainger Computing...