SIU now a Carnegie R1 university

You may’ve seen the news that SIU recently achieved R1 status. I’m a little surprised they didn’t get this classification back in the 2000s. 

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 of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and U of I Chicago.

https://news.siu.edu/2025/02/021325-southern-illinois-university-carbondale-officially-among-top-research-schools-in-the-u.s.php