Where will your curiosity take you?
Is it possible to cure cancer? How? What if the past held the key to a better future? I love language, but how do I turn it into a career? What if health and safety weren’t a privilege, but a promise? How can I contribute to important issues like conservation and human rights?
Big questions can feel intimidating, but they don’t have to. In the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois, questions aren’t the end point, they’re the beginning.
In LAS, curiosity drives everything. Explore the questions that inspire you, seek their answers through creativity and collaboration, and put your discoveries into action. Let your curiosity inspire growth, your ideas drive change, and your education create lasting impact—because LAS is where curiosity drives impact.
Whatever your questions, whatever answers you seek, there is a place for you in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Change begins with curiosity.
From exploring new ideas to solving the world’s biggest issues, LAS empowers thinkers and doers to transform curiosity into measurable impact.
We believe that education is more than lectures and textbooks. It’s about cultivating minds that question, explore, and act with purpose. And we know that when curiosity meets opportunity, innovation follows—and the impossible becomes possible.
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No one knows the LAS experience better than current students. In the LAS Insider blog, students and alumni share their personal stories and insights throughout the academic year at the University of Illinois. Get an inside look at what it's like to be a student in the College of LAS.