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Illinois Colleges by the Numbers
68 college profiles in our Illinois directory. Available measures vary by school. Open a profile to check each figure’s year, student group and source.
State overview and medians
In the Fall 2024 filings for Illinois, 0 listed schools reported requiring test scores and 23 reported not considering them. 3 had no recorded policy. Check each school's current admissions requirements. Illinois has 68 college profiles in this directory; available measures vary by school — from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at 36,258 undergraduates down to campuses a fraction of that size. Among the listed schools with reported rates, the lowest historical acceptance rate is at University of Chicago at 4.5% admitted; the highest is at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville at 97.5%.
Reported tuition (in-state for public schools) runs from $8,417 at the cheapest campus to $70,662 at the most expensive — a $62,245 spread inside Illinois alone. Illinois's ten-year earnings benchmark of $58,572 sits 9% above the national median of reported school-level earnings in the reference group, not the median income of all college students.
Each Illinois profile names its data years and student groups. Check these before comparing Illinois schools.
Illinois medians
| Acceptance rate | Tuition (in-state) | Median annual earnings, 10 years after entry | 6-year graduation: first-time, full-time entrants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77% | $31,360 | $58,572 | 57.6% |
Medians across 69 active bachelor's-degree institutions in Illinois; the directory below lists 68 published profiles. These are medians of school-level figures, not medians across all students. Missing measures are excluded from each median.
All Illinois colleges in our data
Admissions and score ranges: Fall 2024. Tuition is published price, not total attendance cost; public-school prices are in-state. Scroll the table sideways for more measures.
| College | City | Acceptance | SAT section sums / ACT | Tuition | Undergrads | Annual earnings, 10 years after entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augustana College | Rock Island | 62.7% | 1030–1270 | $51,598 | 2,490 | $62,971 |
| Aurora University | Aurora | 80.9% | 900–1150 | $29,170 | 3,974 | $58,709 |
| Benedictine University | Lisle | 95.2% | — | $35,940 | 1,942 | $63,446 |
| Blackburn College | Carlinville | 63.2% | not considered | $28,149 | 471 | $46,802 |
| Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences | Quincy | — | — | — | 176 | $72,430 |
| Bradley University | Peoria | 76.8% | not considered | $42,160 | 3,574 | $66,852 |
| Capital Area Career Center | Springfield | 94.4% | not considered | $12,075 | 161 | $55,357 |
| Chamberlain University-Illinois | Addison | 82.6% | — | $21,536 | 14,027 | $92,405 |
| Chicago State University | Chicago | 43.3% | not considered | $12,754 | 1,384 | $42,778 |
| Columbia College Chicago | Chicago | 89.5% | not considered | $34,088 | 5,368 | $42,195 |
| Concordia University-Chicago | River Forest | 92.8% | not considered | $37,488 | 1,323 | $54,089 |
| DePaul University | Chicago | 75.9% | 1140–1330 | $45,999 | 14,090 | $68,751 |
| DeVry University-Illinois | Lisle | — | 700–1030 | $17,408 | 27,825 | $45,987 |
| Dominican University | River Forest | 90.3% | 880–1100 | $38,978 | 2,561 | $60,327 |
| East-West University | Chicago | — | — | $25,395 | 468 | $29,963 |
| Eastern Illinois University | Charleston | 65.3% | 880–1090 | $13,679 | 4,188 | $51,989 |
| Elmhurst University | Elmhurst | 73.6% | 990–1260 | $42,955 | 3,006 | $61,462 |
| Eureka College | Eureka | 85% | not considered | $29,096 | 522 | $51,641 |
| Fox College | Tinley Park | 70.2% | not considered | $17,670 | 200 | $41,539 |
| Governors State University | University Park | 48.3% | — | $12,004 | 2,556 | $58,169 |
| Graham Hospital School of Nursing | Canton | — | not considered | $8,417 | 40 | $63,586 |
| Greenville University | Greenville | 97.5% | 771–1230 | $32,200 | 955 | $46,827 |
| Hebrew Theological College | Skokie | — | — | $15,150 | 90 | $33,291 |
| Illinois College | Jacksonville | 78.2% | 883–1180 | $38,676 | 930 | $52,575 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago | 54.9% | 1180–1440 | $52,386 | 2,833 | $82,592 |
| Illinois State University | Normal | 88.2% | 990–1210 | $16,144 | 19,057 | $62,117 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Bloomington | 39.3% | 1120–1340 | $57,704 | 1,582 | $70,871 |
| Judson University | Elgin | 47.6% | 816–1118 | $31,360 | 708 | $56,313 |
| Knox College | Galesburg | 70.8% | 1180–1440 | $57,903 | 1,127 | $54,820 |
| Lake Forest College | Lake Forest | 56.8% | 1190–1393 | $56,402 | 1,813 | $61,825 |
| Lewis University | Romeoville | 71.3% | 960–1210 | $39,200 | 4,015 | $66,099 |
| Loyola University Chicago | Chicago | 81.6% | 1170–1360 | $53,710 | 11,737 | $71,530 |
| McKendree University | Lebanon | 71.7% | not considered | $34,740 | 1,752 | $58,572 |
| MDT College of Health Sciences | Chicago | 64.2% | not considered | $21,870 | 575 | $43,946 |
| Methodist College | Peoria | — | — | $18,008 | 245 | $69,800 |
| Millikin University | Decatur | 66.7% | 860–1130 | $26,892 | 1,382 | $51,262 |
| Monmouth College | Monmouth | 90.9% | 1000–1210 | $44,922 | 702 | $51,110 |
| Moody Bible Institute | Chicago | 82.7% | not considered | $15,786 | 1,510 | $45,399 |
| National Louis University | Chicago | 95.1% | not considered | $12,705 | 4,406 | $45,799 |
| North Central College | Naperville | 77.3% | 1055–1310 | $45,726 | 2,428 | $60,123 |
| North Park University | Chicago | 68.5% | not considered | $36,710 | 1,818 | $59,572 |
| Northeastern Illinois University | Chicago | 74.6% | not considered | $12,383 | 3,982 | $52,234 |
| Northern Illinois University | Dekalb | 69.8% | not considered | $13,248 | 11,301 | $57,808 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston | 7.7% | 1510–1570 | $68,322 | 9,201 | $89,363 |
| Olivet Nazarene University | Bourbonnais | 55.9% | 950–1220 | $38,900 | 2,603 | $53,213 |
| Quincy University | Quincy | 50.9% | 1000–1200 | $37,140 | 1,010 | $50,369 |
| Rockford University | Rockford | 92.9% | 850–1070 | $37,780 | 972 | $54,794 |
| Roosevelt University | Chicago | 97.2% | 895–1175 | $21,315 | 2,849 | $48,712 |
| Saint Anthony College of Nursing | Rockford | — | not considered | $27,811 | 172 | $77,709 |
| Saint Xavier University | Chicago | 84.3% | not considered | $37,940 | 3,096 | $58,656 |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | 77.5% | not considered | $56,420 | 2,805 | $40,151 |
| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | Edwardsville | 97.5% | 950–1190 | $12,922 | 8,750 | $56,346 |
| Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | Carbondale | 86.9% | 900–1160 | $13,334 | 8,494 | $53,390 |
| Taylor Business Institute | Chicago | 91.2% | not considered | $12,000 | 98 | $25,559 |
| Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago | Chicago | — | not considered | $15,000 | 78 | — |
| The Chicago School at Chicago | Chicago | — | — | $21,780 | 21 | $56,899 |
| Trinity Christian College | Palos Heights | 84.9% | 1050–1320 | $20,605 | 820 | $55,700 |
| Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences | Rock Island | — | — | — | 56 | $58,743 |
| Trinity International University-Illinois | Deerfield | — | not considered | $12,320 | 55 | $46,989 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago | 4.5% | 1510–1580 | $70,662 | 7,569 | $91,885 |
| University of Illinois Chicago | Chicago | 77.4% | 1130–1350 | $14,338 | 22,170 | $68,740 |
| University of Illinois Springfield | Springfield | 85.9% | 940–1200 | $12,252 | 2,263 | $57,103 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Champaign | 42.4% | 1310–1520 | $16,004 | 36,258 | $81,054 |
| University of St Francis | Joliet | 65.3% | 1030–1220 | $38,110 | 1,223 | $63,926 |
| VanderCook College of Music | Chicago | 89.5% | — | $30,910 | 76 | $47,863 |
| Western Illinois University | Macomb | 71.2% | not considered | $15,264 | 4,410 | $54,163 |
| Wheaton College | Wheaton | 87.4% | 1260–1470 | $45,546 | 2,121 | $63,756 |
| Worsham College of Mortuary Science | Wheeling | — | — | $20,500 | 183 | $61,574 |
Scores shown are among students who submitted them; "not considered" describes that historical cycle. SAT endpoints sum section percentiles and are not total-score percentiles or admission cutoffs. A dash means the measure is unavailable in this source, not zero. School profiles explain missing and withheld values.
Data: IPEDS ADM2024 (Fall 2024 admissions, provisional) · IPEDS HD2024/IC2024 directory · College Scorecard 2026-06-10 release. The summary snapshot does not verify the exact observation years for earnings; it must not be read as current pay. Annual earnings cover federally aided students who worked and were not enrolled when measured, 10 years after entry, and may be shared across institutions. See each profile for its source limitations. Retrieved 2026-09-01.