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The Carle-Illinois College of Medicine was established on March 12, 2015 after the University of Illinois Board of Trustees approved the creation of the new college. The college will begin classes during the 2017-2018 academic year and will offer terminal joint degrees connecting the fields of medicine and engineering. The college is a public–private partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carle Foundation Hospital.

Plans
The college will offer a MD degree with a technical research project, a MD integrated with a Master’s degree in Engineering with a thesis/project, or a MD integrated with a PhD in quantitative engineering and sciences for a MD-PhD dual degree program. All degrees earned at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine will be awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In November 2015 it was announced that the University of Illinois and Carle Foundation Hospital had signed a 10 year research affiliation agreement with the intent to encourage and enable new biomedical advances at the newly formed college of medicine.

The first class of incoming students are scheduled to enroll for the fall 2017 semester for a class size of 25 students, with plans to increase the student body to 50 students by the 2023-2024 academic year. Dr. Rashid Bashir and Dr. Robert Good were selected as co-chairs for the Core Curriculum Group committee charged with designing curriculum for the college.