At Illinois colleges, there are 741,287 students including 590,166 undergraduate and 151,121 graduate schools students in total for academic year 2019-2020. By attending status, there are 431,803 full-time and 309,484 part-time students with gender distribution of314,373 male and 426,914 female students.

Illinois colleges have a total enrollment of 741,287 with a gender distribution of 42.41% male and 57.59% female students for academic year 2019-2020.

Illinois colleges have a total of 431,803 full-time students and 309,484 part-time students. In undergraduate schools, 352,062 students are attending classes with full-time status and 238,104 are part-time students. In graduate school, 79,741 students are full-time and 71,380 students are attending schools with part-time status.

For Illinois colleges, 100,219 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 109,297 students are enrolled in some online courses/degree programs out of total 741,287 students. In undergraduate schools, 155,315 students enrolled in online courses and 54,201 students took at least one online graduate course.

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Illinois colleges. There are 369,996 Caucasian, 87,878 Black/African American, 50,568 Asian, and 139,455 Hispanic students in Illinois colleges.