Largest Illinois Public Colleges

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the largest public Illinois college with 56,916 students. The percentage of online students is 17.42% at the school.

University of Illinois Chicago with 33,747 students and Illinois State University with 20,683 students are following it in the largetst Illinois college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest Illinois online colleges.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stays at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. University of Illinois Chicago also maintained its second place in the ranking.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $19,565 and graduate tuition & fees is $18,944 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 75.78% and the average SAT score is 1,135 at the schools.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% online students. Instead, you can check largest online colleges at the largest online colleges.

Table. Largest Illinois Public Colleges With Most Students Comparison
School NameTotal PopulationUndergraduate EnrollmentGraduation EnrollmentMen EnrollmentWomen EnrollmentOnline EnrollmentStudents to Faculty Ratio
1
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, ILPublic, 4-year 56,916
309
35,12021,79631,00025,9169,91521 to 1
2
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University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, ILPublic, 4-year 33,747
452
21,80711,94014,96918,7784,04918 to 1
3
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Illinois State University Normal, ILPublic, 4-year 20,683
450
18,0552,6288,73411,94998619 to 1
4
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Northern Illinois University Dekalb, ILPublic, 4-year 15,649
585
11,4294,2207,1358,5142,20814 to 1
5
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Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Edwardsville, ILPublic, 4-year 12,519
491
9,3213,1985,2597,2601,95115 to 1
6
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, ILPublic, 4-year 11,107
159
8,0003,1075,4405,6671,88311 to 1
7
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Eastern Illinois University Charleston, ILPublic, 4-year 8,857
249
6,9161,9413,7215,1361,38215 to 1
8
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Western Illinois University Macomb, ILPublic, 4-year 7,643
188
5,3092,3343,3234,3201,80713 to 1
9
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Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, ILPublic, 4-year 5,756
684
4,2071,5492,2193,5372,0799 to 1
10
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Governors State University University Park, ILPublic, 4-year 4,427
32
2,6091,8181,6002,8271,44810 to 1
Average17,73012,2775,4538,3409,3902,77115 to 1