Plan Your Visit

Prospective & Admitted Student Visits

Want to get a feel for life on campus and at The Grainger College of Engineering? Explore a variety of virtual and in-person visit opportunities offered by the college throughout the year.

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Special Programs for Prospective Graduate Students

Virtual Info Session for Graduate Programs 

The Department of Civil Engineering typically has information sessions in the fall and spring for on-campus and online programs. The next events will be in fall 2025.

MERGE Program

The University of Illinois is committed to diversity. The Multi-Cultural Engineering Recruitment for Graduate Education (MERGE) program invites promising students to visit campus for an all-expense-paid, in-depth view of the outstanding programs and facilities available for graduate study in engineering.

How to Find Us

CEE at Illinois has its headquarters on the north side of the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, with additional classrooms, laboratories and offices in the CEE Building next door.  The twin cities of Champaign and Urbana are located in central Illinois, approximately 130 miles southwest of Chicago, 180 miles northeast of St. Louis, Mo., and 120 miles west of Indianapolis, Ind.