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Largest Illinois Colleges with Most Enrollment

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has the most students of 56,607 for academic year 2021-2022 in Illinois. University of Illinois Chicago is ranked second with 34,199 students and Northwestern University follows them with 23,409 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 students by gender.
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Largest Illinois Colleges with Most Enrollment
NameTotal # of StudentsFemaleMale
1University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL
56,60725,62930,978
2University of Illinois Chicago
Public, four-yearsChicago, IL
34,19919,01015,189
3Northwestern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL
23,40912,44510,964
4DePaul University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
21,67011,9259,745
5Illinois State University
Public, four-yearsNormal, IL
20,23311,7418,492
6University of Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
18,8328,68110,151
7Loyola University Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
17,49811,9145,584
8Northern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsDekalb, IL
16,2348,8627,372
9Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Public, four-yearsEdwardsville, IL
13,0107,5915,419
10Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Public, four-yearsCarbondale, IL
11,2665,6335,633
11Eastern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsCharleston, IL
8,6085,1633,445
12Western Illinois University
Public, four-yearsMacomb, IL
7,4554,2243,231
13National Louis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
7,3155,7341,581
14Columbia College Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
6,7364,0482,688
15Illinois Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
6,4862,3754,111
16Northeastern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsChicago, IL
6,4403,9362,504
17Lewis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRomeoville, IL
6,1833,3802,803
18Aurora University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAurora, IL
6,1654,3581,807
19Concordia University-Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRiver Forest, IL
6,0863,9722,114
20Bradley University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPeoria, IL
5,5883,1652,423