SIUE Graduate School
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School is an academic college
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 of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, commonly abbreviated SIUE, is a four-year coed public university in Edwardsville, Illinois about from St. Louis, Missouri. SIUE was established in 1957 as an extension of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is the younger of the two largest...

 located in Edwardsville
Edwardsville, Illinois
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, Illinois
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, USA. It offers 40 master’s degree programs plus specialist degrees, post-baccalaureate certificates and three cooperative doctoral programs . Graduate students who have been accepted into a graduate program as degree-seeking students are eligible for graduate assistantships. Many graduate assistants serve as teaching assistants.

SIUE's Graduate Studies and Research ranks within the top 10 percent of its peer institutions in the U.S. receiving federal funding for research and development. In FY 2009 its faculty and staff were awarded over $29 million from external federal and private agencies. SIUE's research profile includes cutting-edge projects spearheaded by the Illinois Education Research Council, the Institute for Urban Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center, the STEM Institute, as well as the development of innovative community outreach initiatives by the East St. Louis Center.

U.S. News & World Report 2011 edition of America’s Best Colleges lists SIUE among 15 universities . Also in 2010, SIUE ranked for the 7th-consecutive year among the top tier of all Midwestern universities, including among the top 20 public Midwestern master’s universities.

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