Tightest Illinois Colleges to Get In

Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Illinois colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. University of Chicago has the lowest acceptance rate as of 6.48% for academic year 2021-2022 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 low acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the highest acceptance rates in Illinois.

Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	University of Chicago Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL	6.48%	37,974	2,460	2,053	83.46%
2	Northwestern University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL	6.97%	47,636	3,321	2,086	62.81%
3	Illinois Wesleyan University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBloomington, IL	45.23%	4,543	2,055	432	21.02%
4	DeVry University-Illinois Private (for-profit), four-yearsNaperville, IL	45.52%	5,661	2,577	1,971	76.48%
5	Chicago State University Public, four-yearsChicago, IL	47.47%	4,805	2,281	168	7.37%
6	Governors State University Public, four-yearsUniversity Park, IL	52.05%	1,168	608	194	31.91%
7	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL	59.66%	47,593	28,395	8,297	29.22%
8	Quincy University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsQuincy, IL	59.80%	1,480	885	232	26.21%
9	Olivet Nazarene University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBourbonnais, IL	60.55%	5,881	3,561	661	18.56%
10	Northeastern Illinois University Public, four-yearsChicago, IL	62.11%	3,399	2,111	330	15.63%

Tightest Illinois Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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