Two years before the merger, German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe joined the then Armour Institute of Technology to head both Armour's and the Art Institute of Chicago's architecture program. As one of the first American universities to host a Navy V-12 program during World War II the school saw a large increase in students and expanded the Armour campus beyond its original 7 acres (2.83 ha). Illinois Tech continued to expand after the merger. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1956, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2001. Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. It is one of 23 institutions that comprise the Association of Independent Technological Universities (AITU). Today, Illinois Tech is a private, PhD-granting university with programs in engineering, science, human sciences, applied technology, architecture, business, design, and law. As of April 2014, University Tech Park at Illinois Institute of Technology is home to many companies. In December 2006, the University Technology Park at Illinois Institute of Technology, an incubator and life sciences/tech start-up facility, was started in existing research buildings located on the south end of Mies Campus. The Midwest College of Engineering, founded in 1967, joined the university in 1986, giving Illinois Tech a presence in west suburban Wheaton with what is today known as the Rice Campus. The program became the Stuart School of Business in 1999. Ĭhicago-Kent College of Law, founded in 1887, became part of the university in 1969, making Illinois Institute of Technology one of the few technology-based universities with a law school.Īlso in 1969, the Stuart School of Management and Finance-now known as the Stuart School of Business – was established thanks to a gift from the estate of Lewis Institute alumnus and Chicago financier Harold Leonard Stuart. The Institute of Design (ID), founded in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy in 1937, merged with Illinois Tech in 1949. A Cook County circuit court decision handed down on Apsolidified the merger of the two schools into the Illinois Institute of Technology. At separate meetings held by their respective boards on October 26, 1939, the trustees of Armour and Lewis voted to merge the two colleges. Lewis, offered liberal arts as well as science and engineering courses for both men and women.
Located on the west side of Chicago, Lewis Institute, established in 1895 by the estate of hardware merchant and investor Allen C. Illinois Tech was created in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute and Lewis Institute.
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When Armour Institute opened in 1893, it offered professional courses in engineering, chemistry, architecture and library science. Armour claimed it was his best paying investment. (Jonathan) Ogden Armour (1863–1927) continued to support the university in its early years. (1832–1901) gave $1 million to found the Armour Institute-and Armour, his wife, Malvina Belle Ogden Armour (1842–1927) and their son J. Inspired by Gunsaulus' vision, Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. In 1890, when advanced education was often reserved for society's elite, Chicago minister Frank Wakely Gunsaulus delivered what came to be known as the "Million Dollar Sermon." From the pulpit of his South Side church, near the site Illinois Institute of Technology now occupies, Gunsaulus said that with a million dollars he could build a school where students can learn to think in practical not theoretical terms where they could be taught to "learn by doing." The Institute of Design, Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Midwest College of Engineering were also merged into Illinois Tech. In the mid 20th century, it became closely associated with trends in modernist architecture through the work of its Dean of Architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who designed its campus. The university's historic roots are in several 19th-century engineering and professional education institutions in the United States. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university has programs in architecture, business, communications, design, engineering, industrial technology, information technology, law, psychology, and science. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. Illinois Institute of Technology ( IIT), commonly referred to as Illinois Tech, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. NCAA Division III - Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference
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