Chicago colleges and universities

There are 94colleges, universities, and technical schools in the greater Chicagometro area, including the cities of Chicago, Bolingbrook, Des Plaines, Elgin, Evanston, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Schaumburg, Skokie, and Gary within the states of Illinois and Indiana. Combined, these Chicago metro colleges and universitiesemploy 135,707 people, earn more than $17 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $53 billion.

Types of colleges and universities in Chicago

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
94
$17,179,765,819
59
$6,156,743,779
18
$10,989,674,222
7
$33,206,522
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Job trends for Chicago colleges and universities

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
8
1-10
7
11-25
3
26-100
7
101 to 1,000
15
1,000+
26
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Sizes of colleges and universities in Chicago

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
8
$250k to $1M
4
$1M to $5M
8
$5M to $25M
11
$25M to $100M
13
$100M+
23
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Directory of colleges and universities in Chicago


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This category corresponds to the "B40: Higher Education Institutions" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.