Online Learning Update

With an enrollment of just less than 5,000, the University of Illinois Springfield doesn’t come to mind when you think biggest in the state. But the UIS Computer Science Department is big. It has more graduate students enrolled in its master’s program than any other public university in Illinois, including the U of I flagship university in Champaign-Urbana, which has more than eight times as many total students. Ted Mims, chairman of the UIS department, says the master’s program is popular because the curriculum is flexible and offers students the opportunity to select classes that will help them achieve their career goals.  “We also offer a degree online,” Mims said. “When we moved online, it opened up more opportunities.”