UIUC College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) is part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

 and is considered by some to be the top school of agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

-related sciences in the world. Most of the ACES buildings are located on the South Quad.

Facilities

  • ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center
  • Turner Hall
  • Animal Sciences Laboratory
  • Madigan Laboratory
  • Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
  • Agriculture Engineering Sciences Building
  • Mumford Hall, named for Herbert Windsor Mumford I
    Herbert Windsor Mumford I
    Herbert Windsor Mumford I was a professor of agriculture from 1901 to 1938 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.-Biography:...

  • Bevier Hall

Departments



The undergraduate Agricultural Engineering program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is ranked 1st and the undergraduate engineering program is ranked 5th in the 2008 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News and World Report (published in August 2007). The graduate engineering program at Illinois is ranked 5th in the Best Graduate Schools issue of U.S. News and World Report (published in March 2007). (College of Engineering) (ACES News)

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