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Most Favored Illinois Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the most favored (higher yield) schools in Illinois. The yield, also known as enrollment rate, is the percent of students who choose to enroll after having been offered admission. Higher yield means that more admitted students are finally enrolled into the school.
University of Chicago, has the highest yield rate of 84.80% for academic year 2022-2023 in Illinois. Principia College is positioned second with 61.00% yield and Northwestern University follows them with 55%. Next table shows the schools that have high yield rates with admission statistics and acceptance rates. We exclude colleges whose programs are focused on certificate, associate, and/or special subjects such as arts and music from the ranking. You may want to check colleges having the lowest yield rates in Illinois.
Most Favored Illinois Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate (2023)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1University of Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL		 84.80% 37,522 2,039 1,729 5.43%
2Principia College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsElsah, IL		 61.00% 209 100 61 47.85%
3Northwestern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL		 55.16% 51,261 3,695 2,038 7.21%
4Wheaton College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWheaton, IL		 30.11% 1,893 1,674 504 88.43%
5Governors State University
Public, four-yearsUniversity Park, IL		 29.48% 1,865 1,072 316 57.48%
6National Louis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL		 28.24% 3,181 2,928 827 92.05%
7Aurora University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAurora, IL		 28.08% 2,922 2,393 672 81.90%
8University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL		 28.06% 63,257 28,354 7,957 44.82%
9Quincy University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsQuincy, IL		 27.99% 1,760 1,086 304 61.70%
10McKendree University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLebanon, IL		 26.47% 2,332 1,594 422 68.35%

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