Mission “We at Illinois State University work as a diverse community of scholars with a commitment to fostering a small-college atmosphere with large-university opportunities. We promote the highest academic standards in our teaching, our scholarship, and the connections we build between them. We devote all of our resources and energies to creating the most supportive and productive community possible to serve the citizens of Illinois and beyond.”
Description Located in Normal, Illinois with easy access to rail and air service, Normal doesn't quite describe it. Illinois State University (ISU) provides baccalaureate and post-graduate education courses and degrees in more than 180 academic fields, including business, fine arts, education, science, nursing, and technology. We boast a student body of more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 48 states and 6 continents. ISU's facilities include a fitness center, public planetarium, two laboratory schools, a social media listening center, the tallest residence hall in Illinois, and both a concert venue and art gallery. Founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, the state's first public university today employs around 3500 full and part-time employees, not including students and graduate assistants, in teaching, research, technology, athletics and coaching, food service, facilities management, farm management, finance, technology, fundraising, and student affairs.
Illinois State has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 790 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Illinois State employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 83% of employees would recommend working at Illinois State to a friend. This is based on 790 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
88% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Illinois State as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Illinois State.