The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a school at the University of Illinois at Chicago offering both undergraduate and graduate programs of study. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences predates the current campus, having been founded in 1946 at the Navy Pier campus. However, at that time liberal arts education was overseen by an associate dean. In 1964, as the University was being reconstituted at the Circle Campus, the Board of Trustees approved a full-fledged college with seventeen departments. The college and certain departments are based in University Hall. The remainder of the departments are based around the west campus in the Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB), Science and Engineering Offices (SEO), Science and Engineering Labs (SEL), Science and Engineering South (SES), Grant Hall, and elsewhere. Today, the college has 41 undergraduate and 39 graduate programs in 26 academic departments and 6 research centers . The college has twenty six departments in three groups: humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.