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Tightest Illinois Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

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Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Illinois colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. University of Chicago has the lowest acceptance rate as of 5.43% for academic year 2022-2023 in Illinois. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 100 new students (freshmen).
The following table shows the schools that have low acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the highest acceptance rates in Illinois.
Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1University of Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL		5.43%37,5222,0391,72984.80%
2Northwestern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL		7.21%51,2613,6952,03855.16%
3Illinois Wesleyan University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBloomington, IL		42.22%4,4081,86138220.53%
4DeVry University-Illinois
Private (for-profit), four-yearsNaperville, IL		43.02%5,9862,5752,17384.39%
5University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL		44.82%63,25728,3547,95728.06%
6Chicago State University
Public, four-yearsChicago, IL		48.51%7,4043,5921734.82%
7Rockford University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRockford, IL		54.91%2,7791,52616811.01%
8Governors State University
Public, four-yearsUniversity Park, IL		57.48%1,8651,07231629.48%
9Olivet Nazarene University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBourbonnais, IL		57.80%6,1963,58168219.04%
10Judson University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsElgin, IL		58.20%1,15367117526.08%

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