Affordable Illinois Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate
The next table lists the most affordable (high acceptance rate) Illinois colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in high level in recent years. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville has the highest acceptance rate as of 98.07% for academic year 2021-2022 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 high acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the tightest acceptance rates in Illinois.
| Name | Acceptance Rate | # of Applicants | # of Admitted | # of Enrolled | Yield | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Illinois University-EdwardsvillePublic, four-yearsEdwardsville, IL | 98.07% | 8,995 | 8,821 | 1,992 | 22.58% |
| 2 | Moody Bible InstitutePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL | 97.65% | 298 | 291 | 166 | 57.04% |
| 3 | National Louis UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL | 97.04% | 1,518 | 1,473 | 558 | 37.88% |
| 4 | Columbia College ChicagoPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL | 95.64% | 7,218 | 6,903 | 1,696 | 24.57% |
| 5 | Southern Illinois University-CarbondalePublic, four-yearsCarbondale, IL | 95.15% | 6,987 | 6,648 | 1,422 | 21.39% |
| 6 | Roosevelt UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL | 92.29% | 3,541 | 3,268 | 507 | 15.51% |
| 7 | Illinois State UniversityPublic, four-yearsNormal, IL | 91.54% | 11,913 | 10,905 | 3,374 | 30.94% |
| 8 | Concordia University-ChicagoPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsRiver Forest, IL | 87.81% | 5,620 | 4,935 | 336 | 6.81% |
| 9 | Eureka CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsEureka, IL | 86.66% | 877 | 760 | 119 | 15.66% |
| 10 | Aurora UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsAurora, IL | 86.42% | 3,101 | 2,680 | 822 | 30.67% |
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