Illinois Colleges Ranked by Highest GPA

List of Colleges by GPA

Below is a list of the 54 colleges in Illinois with the highest average high school GPA for incoming freshmen. University of Chicago tops the list with an average reported GPA of 4.0. Note that not all colleges report GPA for their incoming class. Those with asterisk(*) denote a predicted GPA by the CollegeSimply AI algorithm.

GPA Data is reported by participating colleges to Wintergreen Orchard House and is reproduced under license.

List of Illinois Colleges Ranked by Highest GPA
	College	Average GPA
C	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	4.0
I	Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL	3.92
N	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	3.92*
I	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Champaign, IL	3.79*
W	Wheaton College Wheaton, IL	3.71
B	Bradley University Peoria, IL	3.69
D	DePaul University Chicago, IL	3.65
L	Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL	3.65
L	Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL	3.63
N	North Central College Naperville, IL	3.59
D	Dominican University River Forest, IL	3.59
I	Illinois College Jacksonville, IL	3.56
I	Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, IL	3.5
V	VanderCook College of Music Chicago, IL	3.48
I	University of Illinois at Springfield Springfield, IL	3.44
S	University of St Francis Joliet, IL	3.43
S	School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL	3.4
M	McKendree University Lebanon, IL	3.4
L	Lewis University Romeoville, IL	3.39
Q	Quincy University Quincy, IL	3.39