List of colleges and universities in Illinois
The following is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Illinois.Public institutions
Two-year institutions
Four-year institutions
Private institutions
Non-profit
For-profit
Endowments
Defunct institutions
- Abingdon College, in Abingdon, merged with Eureka College in 1885, campus closed in 1888
- Argosy University
- Barat College, in Lake Forest, became a part of DePaul University in 2001. Barat campus closed in 2005.
- Brown's Business College, numerous locations around Illinois
- Dixon College
- Evanston College for Ladies, merged with Northwestern University in 1873
- Hedding College, in Abingdon, absorbed by Illinois Wesleyan University in 1930
- Hillsboro College, in Hillsboro, moved to Springfield in 1852 as Illinois State University, moved to Carthage in 1870 and became Carthage College
- Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago
- Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg, in Schaumburg
- International Academy of Design & Technology – Schaumburg
- ITT Technical Institute
- Jubilee College, near Brimfield, Peoria County
- Judson College, in Mount Palatine
- Lombard College, in Galesburg, after closing many students went to Knox College
- MacMurray College, in Jacksonville
- Mallinckrodt College, merged with Loyola University Chicago
- Midstate College, in Peoria
- Midwest College of Engineering, merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1986.
- Morthland College
- Mount Morris College, in Mount Morris
- University of Nauvoo, in Nauvoo
- Oregon Bible College, in Oregon
- Robert Morris University Illinois, Chicago, merged with Roosevelt University.
- Shimer College, merged with North Central College in Naperville in 2017
- Solex College
- St. Viator College, in Bourbonnais
- Shurtleff College, in Alton, was absorbed by Southern Illinois University when its campus became the SIU Alton Residence Center, one of the two precursors of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The campus now houses the School of Dental Medicine.
- State Community College of East Saint Louis, replaced by Metropolitan Community College around 1995, which was closed in 1999
- Vatterott College
- Westwood College
- William & Vashti College, in Aledo
