-49%
East-West University · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at East-West University are 49% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($30.0k vs $58.7k).
State hub · Illinois · vintage 2025-05
Illinois Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Illinois — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Illinois
Top signals rolled up across Illinoisinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-43%
Hebrew Theological College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Hebrew Theological College are 43% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $58.7k).
-39%
Taylor Business Institute · For-profit associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Taylor Business Institute are 38% below the for-profit associate's-predominant peer median ($25.6k vs $41.5k).
-32%
School of the Art Institute of Chicago · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at School of the Art Institute of Chicago are 32% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($40.2k vs $58.7k).
-26%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College are 26% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($28.5k vs $38.6k).
-25%
Chicago State University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Chicago State University are 25% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($42.8k vs $57.1k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Illinois Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
209
Title-IV main campuses8,110
with published outcomes$40,810
across institutions53.3%
median across institutions461,937
latest historical vintage$13,248
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Illinois has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+29%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
44.5% → 57.5%
-12%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment fell
526,753 → 461,937
+214%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$4,214 → $13,248
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
84 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 84 of 209 Title-IV institutions · Public 59 · Private 80 · For-profit 70
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 105 Illinois cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Addison
- Alton
- Aurora
- Belleville
- Bloomingdale
- Bloomington
- Bourbonnais
- Bridgeview
- Calumet City
- Canton
- Carbondale
- Carlinville
- Carterville
- Centralia
- Champaign
- Charleston
- Chicago
- Chicago Heights
- Cicero
- Crystal Lake
- Danville
- Decatur
- Deerfield
- Dekalb
- Des Plaines
- Dixon
- Downers Grove
- East Peoria
- Edwardsville
- Elgin
- Elmhurst
- Elsah
- Eureka
- Evanston
- Freeport
- Galesburg
- Glen Ellyn
- Glendale Heights
- Godfrey
- Grayslake
- Greenville
- Gurnee
- Harrisburg
- Hillside
- Hoffman Estates
- Ina
- Jacksonville
- Joliet
- Kankakee
- Lake Forest
- Lebanon
- Libertyville
- Lincoln
- Lisle
- Lombard
- Macomb
- Malta
- Matteson
- Mattoon
- Moline
- Monmouth
- Morrison
- Mundelein
- Naperville
- Niles
- Normal
- North Chicago
- Oak Brook
- Oak Forest
- Oak Lawn
- Oakbrook
- Oglesby
- Olney
- Oswego
- Palatine
- Palos Heights
- Palos Hills
- Park Ridge
- Peoria
- PERU
- Prospect Heights
- Quincy
- Red Bud
- Richton Park
- River Forest
- River Grove
- Rock Island
- Rockford
- Romeoville
- Schaumburg
- Skokie
- South Holland
- Springfield
- Sterling
- Sugar Grove
- Sycamore
- Tinley Park
- Ullin
- University Park
- Urbana
- Villa Park
- Waterloo
- Wheaton
- Wheeling
- Willowbrook
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.