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Highest yield (admitted students who enroll) in Illinois
51 colleges in Illinois with this figure reported (500+ students).
1University of Chicago · IL · Private (nonprofit)88% yield2DeVry University-Illinois · IL · Private (for-profit)83% yield3Moody Bible Institute · IL · Private (nonprofit)68% yield4Northwestern University · IL · Private (nonprofit)57% yield5Wheaton College · IL · Private (nonprofit)33% yield6Judson University · IL · Private (nonprofit)32% yield7Quincy University · IL · Private (nonprofit)30% yield8University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · IL · Public28% yield9Trinity Christian College · IL · Private (nonprofit)28% yield10McKendree University · IL · Private (nonprofit)26% yield11University of Illinois Chicago · IL · Public23% yield12Columbia College Chicago · IL · Private (nonprofit)22% yield13Illinois State University · IL · Public22% yield14Olivet Nazarene University · IL · Private (nonprofit)22% yield15National Louis University · IL · Private (nonprofit)20% yield16University of St Francis · IL · Private (nonprofit)20% yield17Aurora University · IL · Private (nonprofit)19% yield18Southern Illinois University Edwardsville · IL · Public18% yield19North Park University · IL · Private (nonprofit)18% yield20Greenville University · IL · Private (nonprofit)17% yield21Southern Illinois University-Carbondale · IL · Public17% yield22North Central College · IL · Private (nonprofit)17% yield23Benedictine University · IL · Private (nonprofit)16% yield24Lewis University · IL · Private (nonprofit)16% yield25Illinois Wesleyan University · IL · Private (nonprofit)16% yield26Western Illinois University · IL · Public15% yield27Millikin University · IL · Private (nonprofit)15% yield28Monmouth College · IL · Private (nonprofit)15% yield29Lake Forest College · IL · Private (nonprofit)15% yield30Augustana College · IL · Private (nonprofit)14% yield31Eureka College · IL · Private (nonprofit)14% yield32School of the Art Institute of Chicago · IL · Private (nonprofit)13% yield33Northern Illinois University · IL · Public13% yield34Elmhurst University · IL · Private (nonprofit)13% yield35Dominican University · IL · Private (nonprofit)12% yield36DePaul University · IL · Private (nonprofit)12% yield37University of Illinois Springfield · IL · Public12% yield38Saint Xavier University · IL · Private (nonprofit)12% yield39Rockford University · IL · Private (nonprofit)11% yield40Illinois Institute of Technology · IL · Private (nonprofit)11% yield
Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS (latest survey year). Sorted only by highest yield (admitted students who enroll) — this is not an overall quality ranking. Open-admission colleges do not report an admit rate and are not listed here.