univstats

Largest Illinois Colleges with Most Enrollment

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has the most students of 56,916 for academic year 2022-2023 in Illinois. University of Illinois Chicago is ranked second with 33,747 students and Northwestern University follows them with 23,161 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.
You may want to check colleges having the smallest enrollment in Illinois.
Largest Illinois Colleges with Most Enrollment
NameTotal # of StudentsFemaleMale
1University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL
56,91625,91631,000
2University of Illinois Chicago
Public, four-yearsChicago, IL
33,74718,77814,969
3Northwestern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL
23,16112,45010,711
4DePaul University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
20,91711,6569,261
5Illinois State University
Public, four-yearsNormal, IL
20,68311,9498,734
6University of Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
18,3398,4149,925
7Loyola University Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
16,89911,6185,281
8Northern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsDekalb, IL
15,6498,5147,135
9Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Public, four-yearsEdwardsville, IL
12,5197,2605,259
10Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Public, four-yearsCarbondale, IL
11,1075,6675,440
11Eastern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsCharleston, IL
8,8575,1363,721
12Western Illinois University
Public, four-yearsMacomb, IL
7,6434,3203,323
13National Louis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
7,5255,8501,675
14Illinois Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
6,9432,5474,396
15Columbia College Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL
6,6464,0092,637
16Lewis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRomeoville, IL
6,5133,2513,262
17Aurora University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAurora, IL
5,9184,2251,693
18Northeastern Illinois University
Public, four-yearsChicago, IL
5,7563,5372,219
19Bradley University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPeoria, IL
5,5523,0752,477
20Concordia University-Chicago
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsRiver Forest, IL
5,3543,4681,886