Illinois Colleges with Most Online Enrollment

In Illinois, 80,703 students enrolled online exclusively, and the number of online students decreased by 11,563 from last year. The decline in the number of online students appears to be due to the end of the pandemic.

DeVry University-Illinois has the most online students of 25,465 out of 26,384.00 total students (96.52%) among 42 Illinois colleges that offer online programs.

Chamberlain University-Illinois with 24,119 online students and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with 9,915 online students are following it in The largest online Illinois Colleges ranking.

DeVry University-Illinois ranked 1st, up 1 place from 2nd last year. Chamberlain University-Illinois ranked second, a drop from first place last year.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $28,831 and graduate tuition & fees is $18,988 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 73.56% and the average SAT score is 1,163 at the schools.

Table. The Largest Online Illinois Colleges Comparison
School NameOnline EnrollmentTotal PopulationUndergraduate EnrollmentGraduation EnrollmentMen EnrollmentWomen EnrollmentUndergraduate Tuition & Fees
1
1		DeVry University-Illinois Lisle, ILPrivate, 4-year 25,465
3,204		26,38423,3573,0279,44116,943$15,032
2
1		Chamberlain University-Illinois Addison, ILPrivate, 4-year 24,119
938		26,68711,66115,0262,66524,022$20,604
3
1		University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, ILPublic, 4-year 9,915
1,907		56,91635,12021,79631,00025,916$39,192
($18,060)
4
1		DePaul University Chicago, ILPrivate, 4-year 4,119
1,247		20,91714,1346,7839,26111,656$44,174
5
2		University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, ILPublic, 4-year 4,049
7,801		33,74721,80711,94014,96918,778$31,505
($15,816)
6
1		National Louis University Chicago, ILPrivate, 4-year 3,948
751		7,5253,9843,5411,6755,850$14,601
7
1		Concordia University-Chicago River Forest, ILPrivate, 4-year 3,582
652		5,3541,3284,0261,8863,468$36,258
8
1		Loyola University Chicago Chicago, ILPrivate, 4-year 2,215
616		16,89911,7035,1965,28111,618$51,716
9
1		Northern Illinois University Dekalb, ILPublic, 4-year 2,208
375		15,64911,4294,2207,1358,514$12,506
($12,506)
10
1		Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, ILPublic, 4-year 2,079
497		5,7564,2071,5492,2193,537$22,726
($12,383)
Average8,17021,58313,8737,7108,55313,030$28,831
($14,691)