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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 97.51% 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 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.
Affordable Illinois Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Public, four-yearsEdwardsville, IL
97.51%9,3259,0931,86620.52%
2Columbia College Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
94.77%7,7017,2981,60622.01%
3Moody Bible Institute
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
94.14%32430517457.05%
4Greenville University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGreenville, IL
94.12%1,2751,20023019.17%
5Benedictine University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLisle, IL
93.12%2,7462,55742516.62%
6Concordia University-Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRiver Forest, IL
93.04%4,2963,9972676.68%
7National Louis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
92.05%3,1812,92882728.24%
8Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Public, four-yearsCarbondale, IL
91.50%9,7718,9401,51816.98%
9Monmouth College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMonmouth, IL
90.70%1,8181,64923114.01%
10Dominican University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRiver Forest, IL
89.53%5,1174,58160013.10%