The city is located on the shores of Lake Michigan near parks, forests and beaches offering a variety of recreational activities. The Tutorium offers a comprehensive program of English instruction for speakers of other languages. The program is designed for highly motivated individuals who wish to improve their command of the English language for university study or for business and professional advancement. Four levels of instruction are offered each session. Students receive five hours of classroom instruction daily in reading, vocabulary development, composition, grammar, listening comprehension, conversation, pronunciation, and academic study skills, and they regularly attend the computer assisted language laboratory.
Students also select from a variety of special topic elective courses.
Tutorium students receive academic, cultural, and immigration counseling. Three university admissions seminars per session assist students to understand the university application process. Tutorium students also have many opportunities to participate in on-campus activities and field trips around Chicago and Illinois. The University of Illinois at Chicago is the largest university in the Chicago area with over 25,000 students and nearly 100 fields of study. Tutorium students have access to library facilities of more than 1.6 million volumes, including special mathematics, architecture, medicine and science collections.