Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is home to approximately 3,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students in MBA, master's and doctoral programs. Internationally recognized as a leading business school, Gies Business has outstanding programs in accountancy, business administration, and finance.Consistently ranked as one of the top public universities in th...Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is home to approximately 3,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students in MBA, master's and doctoral programs. Internationally recognized as a leading business school, Gies Business has outstanding programs in accountancy, business administration, and finance.Consistently ranked as one of the top public universities in the nation by US News & World Report, Forbes, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the University of Illinois is also a leader in business education and research. We're the #1 source of CFOs to Fortune 500 and S&P 500 firms (Crist | Kolder Associates, 2014), and U of I undergrads receive more venture funding for startups than any university in the state, ranking 12th worldwide (PitchBook, 2014).