List of colleges and universities in Chicago
The following is a list of colleges and universities in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Community and junior colleges
Public institutions
- City Colleges of Chicago
- *Harold Washington College
- *Kennedy–King College
- *Malcolm X College
- *Olive–Harvey College
- *Richard J. Daley College
- *Truman College
- *Wilbur Wright College
- College of DuPage
- College of Lake County
- Elgin Community College
- Harper College
- Joliet Junior College
- McHenry County College
- Moraine Valley Community College
- Morton College
- Oakton College
- Prairie State College
- South Suburban College
- Triton College
- Waubonsee Community College
Private institutions
Colleges granting bachelor's degrees and above
- Columbia College Chicago
- Hebrew Theological College
- Lake Forest College
- Moody Bible Institute
- North Central College
- St. Augustine College
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Telshe Yeshiva
- Trinity Christian College
- VanderCook College of Music
- Wheaton College
Universities and graduate schools
Public institutions
- Chicago State University
- Governors State University
- Northeastern Illinois University
- Northern Illinois University
- University of Illinois Chicago
Private institutions
- Aurora University
- Benedictine University
- Concordia University Chicago
- DePaul University
- Dominican University
- East–West University
- Elmhurst University
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Judson University
- Kendall College
- Lewis University
- Loyola University Chicago
- Midwestern University
- National Louis University
- National University of Health Sciences
- North Park University
- Northwestern University
- Roosevelt University
- Saint Xavier University
- Trinity International University
- University of Chicago
- University of St. Francis
- University of Saint Mary of the Lake
Programs, graduate- and professional-only
Business
- Booth School of Business
- Kellogg School of Management
- Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
- Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
- Liautaud Graduate School of Business
- Quinlan School of Business
- Stuart School of Business
Law
- Chicago-Kent College of Law
- DePaul University College of Law
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
- University of Chicago Law School
Medical, dental and healthcare
- Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Feinberg School of Medicine
- Illinois College of Optometry
- Midwestern University
- Pritzker School of Medicine
- Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Rush University
- Stritch School of Medicine
- UIC College of Pharmacy
- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
- University of Illinois College of Medicine
Religious and theological
- Bexley Seabury
- Catholic Theological Union
- Chicago Theological Seminary
- Christian Life College
- Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary
- Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
- McCormick Theological Seminary
- Meadville Lombard Theological School
- Moody Bible Institute
- North Park Theological Seminary
- Northern Seminary
- Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
- University of Chicago Divinity School
Social science
- Adler University
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
- Erikson Institute
- Institute for Clinical Social Work
Technology and other areas
For-profit
- American InterContinental University
- Chamberlain University
- DeVry University
- Fox College
- Midwest College of Oriental Medicine
- Pacific College of Health and Science
- Rasmussen University
- SAE Institute Chicago
- Taylor Business Institute
- University of Phoenix
Non-degree-granting career colleges
- Illinois Media School
- Universal Technical Institute
Defunct
- American Conservatory of Music
- Argosy University
- Barat College, merged with DePaul University
- Bush Conservatory of Music
- Central YMCA College
- The Chicago Conservatory College
- Chicago Technical College
- Coyne College
- Evanston College for Ladies, merged with Northwestern University in 1873
- Everest College
- Flashpoint Chicago
- George Williams College, merged its Wisconsin campus into Aurora University
- Harrington College of Design
- Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago
- Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg
- Illinois Technical College
- International Academy of Design & Technology – Schaumburg
- ITT Technical Institute
- Knowledge Systems Institute
- La Salle Extension University
- Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago
- Lexington College
- Mallinckrodt College, merged with Loyola University Chicago
- Mundelein College merged with Loyola University of Chicago
- Northwestern College
- Old University of Chicago
- Robert Morris University Illinois, merged into Roosevelt University in 2020
- Sanford–Brown
- Shimer College, merged with North Central College in Naperville in 2017
- Solex College
- Westwood College