Top Colleges in Illinois Acceptance Rates and Admission Statistics

The average acceptance rate of Top Colleges in Illinois is 52.55%, a total of 27,289 applicants applied to the schools and 10,413 accepted.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign had the most number of applicants of 73,742 and Wheaton College had the least number of applicants of 2,040 among Top Colleges in Illinois.

University of Chicago had the lowest acceptance rate of 4.48% and Illinois State University had the highest rate of 88.15%.

Table. Top Colleges in Illinois Acceptance Rates and Admission Comparison
RankSchool ApplicantsAdmittedEnrolledAcceptance RateYield
1University of ChicagoChicago, IL43,6121,9551,7264.48%88.29%
2Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL49,4743,8062,1057.69%55.31%
3Principia CollegeElsah, IL-----
4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL73,74231,2479,00842.37%28.83%
5Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, IL12,2166,71051954.93%7.73%
6University of Illinois ChicagoChicago, IL27,08520,9514,41977.35%21.09%
7Wheaton CollegeWheaton, IL2,0401,78353387.40%29.89%
8Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL21,57319,0174,28588.15%22.53%
9Illinois Wesleyan UniversityBloomington, IL9,5583,75746139.31%12.27%
10Lewis UniversityRomeoville, IL6,3024,49368671.29%15.27%
-Average27,28910,4132,63853%31%