Illinois Public Colleges Ranked by Highest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 12 public colleges in Illinois with the highest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville leads the list by accepting 98% of high school students that applied.

List of Illinois Public Colleges Ranked by Highest Acceptance Rate
	School	Acceptance Rate
	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville, IL	98%
	Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL	91%
	Illinois State University Normal, IL	86%
	University of Illinois at Springfield Springfield, IL	82%
	University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL	79%
	Western Illinois University Macomb, IL	75%
	Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL	71%
	Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL	68%
	Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, IL	63%
	Governors State University University Park, IL	57%
	Chicago State University Chicago, IL	49%
	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Champaign, IL	45%