SIU Carbondale receives prestigious designation

Southern Illinois University Carbondale has officially entered the ranks of the top research universities in the nation. SIU has been designated Research 1, or R-1, in the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education.

The prestigious designation by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching confirms SIU Carbondale is in the same league as elite private and flagship universities across the country.

Less than 5% of the nearly 4,000 classified institutions are designated Research 1.

With its new designation under Carnegie’s revised criteria, SIU Carbondale is one of just six R1 universities in the state of Illinois, on the same level as Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and U of I Chicago.