B.S.: Materials Engineering

The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is leading the future of engineering across every field. We offer 19 undergraduate engineering programs across a wide range of engineering fields with an emphasis on providing an interdisciplinary curriculum. Our innovative and top-ranked majors guarantee that there is a program geared toward the change you want to make in the world.

Undergraduate students apply and enroll directly into their major of choice, which fosters an immersive experience with faculty and peers in departments, builds community, and enables involvement in research and extracurriculars related specifically to academic goals. 

We proudly offer several unique programs that are designed to address critical fields with growing demands for highly skilled, trained engineers, including 14 Computer Science (CS) + X degrees and a first-of-its-kind B.S. in Neural Engineering.

Grainger Engineering also offers an Engineering Undeclared program that allows first-year students to explore major options during their first two years of undergraduate study.