Regional Programs in Quad Cities and Urbana-Champaign provide selected undergraduate and graduate study options. Rockford and Peoria provide graduate study options. F aculty Faculty at UIC College of Nursing are accomplished teachers, researchers and clinicians. Concentrated in three departments, faculty both conduct with, and teach research to undergraduates and graduate students. Their expectations and modeling of applied research supports the development of life long learning and leadership in the student.
Clinical faculty are active in practice and provide access to the clinical model and experience.
They are role models and mentors to their students. The student-faculty ratio is eight to one. Ten faculty members are fellows in the American Academy of Nursing. S tudent Body Students reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of Chicago itself. UIC has long provided solid academic training for first-generation college students from the city's numerous ethnic groups and currently provides opportunities to students returning to school following a significant absence due to other career or family responsibilities.