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Largest Illinois Colleges with Most Graduate Enrollment

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has the most graduate students of 21,796 for academic year 2022-2023 in Illinois. Northwestern University is ranked second with 14,168 students and University of Illinois Chicago follows them with 11,940 students. We exclude colleges whose programs are focused on certificate, associate, and/or special subjects such as arts and music from the ranking. Next table shows the schools that have most graduate students by gender.
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Largest Illinois Colleges with Most Graduate Enrollment
NameTotal # of Graduate StudentsFemaleMale
1University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL
21,7969,61712,179
2Northwestern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL
14,1687,5836,585
3University of Illinois Chicago
Public, four-yearsChicago, IL
11,9407,1974,743
4University of Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
10,7444,8475,897
5DePaul University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
6,7833,8472,936
6Loyola University Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
5,1963,5641,632
7Northern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsDekalb, IL
4,2202,4901,730
8Concordia University-Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRiver Forest, IL
4,0262,7511,275
9Illinois Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
3,8181,5392,279
10National Louis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
3,5412,921620
11Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Public, four-yearsEdwardsville, IL
3,1981,9241,274
12Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Public, four-yearsCarbondale, IL
3,1071,6451,462
13Illinois State University
Public, four-yearsNormal, IL
2,6281,748880
14Lewis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRomeoville, IL
2,5801,3711,209
15Western Illinois University
Public, four-yearsMacomb, IL
2,3341,2911,043
16Eastern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsCharleston, IL
1,9411,044897
17University of St Francis
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsJoliet, IL
1,8831,476407
18Aurora University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAurora, IL
1,8701,500370
19Governors State University
Public, four-yearsUniversity Park, IL
1,8181,179639
20University of Illinois Springfield
Public, four-yearsSpringfield, IL
1,805859946