Top Colleges in Illinois Acceptance Rates and Admission Statistics

The average acceptance rate of Top Colleges in Illinois is 53.10%, a total of 22,657 applicants applied to the schools and 8,720 accepted.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign had the most number of applicants of 67,398 and Principia College had the least number of applicants of 268 among Top Colleges in Illinois.

University of Chicago had the lowest acceptance rate of 5.00% and Wheaton College had the highest rate of 89.98%.

Table. Top Colleges in Illinois Acceptance Rates and Admission Comparison
RankSchool ApplicantsAdmittedEnrolledAcceptance RateYield
1University of ChicagoChicago, IL38,6311,9321,7005.00%87.99%
2Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL51,7693,6242,0667.00%57.01%
3Principia CollegeElsah, IL2681188444.03%71.19%
4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL67,39829,6558,30344.00%28.00%
5Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, IL8,9124,90253955.00%11.00%
6University of Illinois ChicagoChicago, IL25,42020,0824,61979.00%23.00%
7Wheaton CollegeWheaton, IL1,8661,67955489.98%33.00%
8Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL20,88418,5874,08989.00%22.00%
9Illinois Wesleyan UniversityBloomington, IL6,1282,75844145.01%15.99%
10Lewis UniversityRomeoville, IL5,2913,86261872.99%16.00%
-Average22,6578,7202,30153%37%