College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences - University of Illinois at Springfield

If you’re exploring options for graduate education, you already know how vitally important a graduate degree is in today’s global community and marketplace. Whether you want to prepare for a new and engaging career, pursue a longstanding intellectual or creative passion or develop a professional level of expertise in hopes of helping make the world a better place, graduate education is the pathway by which those aspirations can become reality.

More than 40% of UIS students are engaged in graduate study, and most were attracted to UIS by an impressive combination of factors that include educational quality, value and campus location and setting.

As a public institution in the Midwest, UIS tuition rates are affordable and very cost-competitive. Online courses are popular even among our on-campus graduate students, and many of our part-time students find that they can reduce their commuting time and costs by taking advantage of our online and blended courses.