Tightest Illinois Colleges to Get In

Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The following 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 4.48% for academic year 2023-2024 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 (2023-2024)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	University of Chicago Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL	4.48%	43,612	1,955	1,726	88.29%
2	Northwestern University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEvanston, IL	7.69%	49,474	3,806	2,105	55.31%
3	Illinois Wesleyan University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBloomington, IL	39.31%	9,558	3,757	461	12.27%
4	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Public, four-yearsChampaign, IL	42.37%	73,742	31,247	9,008	28.83%
5	Chicago State University Public, four-yearsChicago, IL	43.26%	10,638	4,602	173	3.76%
6	Judson University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsElgin, IL	47.59%	830	395	155	39.24%
7	Governors State University Public, four-yearsUniversity Park, IL	48.27%	2,944	1,421	239	16.82%
8	Quincy University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsQuincy, IL	50.93%	1,771	902	266	29.49%
9	Illinois Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChicago, IL	54.93%	12,216	6,710	519	7.73%
10	Olivet Nazarene University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBourbonnais, IL	55.86%	5,789	3,234	791	24.46%

Tightest Illinois Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest Illinois Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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