Southern IL University East St Louis

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, located in East St. Louis, Ill., offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the arts and sciences, business, education and engineering, and nursing and professional degrees in dentistry and pharmacy. The university has more than 13,000 students in a campus spread over an area of over 2,500 acres. It has a student-to-faculty ratio of 17 to 1. The university has been named among America s best colleges for its senior assignment program, an integrative learning experience required of all seniors prior to graduation. More than 25 percent of SIUE undergraduate students live on campus, which according to the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, classifies SIUE as a primarily residential university.