Facts and Statistics
City Colleges of Chicago, officially known as Community College District 508, is one of the nation’s largest community college districts and the largest in Illinois. About 4,000 thousand faculty and staff help prepare 60,000 students each year to enter the workforce, pursue higher education and advance their careers. The District serves students on seven campuses and five satellite sites. It also oversees two restaurants and five child care centers.
For basic enrollment and degree and certificate statistics for each college, view the Statistical Digest.
Student Right to Know
The Student Right-to-Know Act, passed by Congress in 1990, requires institutions eligible for Title IV funding, under the Higher Education Act of 1965, to calculate completion or graduation rates of certificate/degree-seeking, full-time students entering that institution, and to disclose these rates to current and prospective students. To read more about the Student Right-to-Know Act, please visit the National Center for Education Statistics website at https://nces.ed.gov.
In compliance with the Student-Right-to-Know Act, each of the City Colleges of Chicago makes the most recent completion and transfer-out rates available to all current and prospective students.
Beginning in Fall 2013, a cohort of all certificate/degree-seeking, first-time, full-time students were tracked over a three-year period. Their completion and transfer rates are listed below.
Please keep in mind that these rates do not represent the success rates of the entire student population at each College nor do they account for degrees or certificates awarded after this three-year tracking period.
City Colleges of Chicago IPEDS Graduation and Transfer-out Rates for Fall 2013 Cohort*
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College
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Fall 2013 Cohort
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Graduation Rate1
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Transfer-out Rate2
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Richard J. Daley College
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462
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23%
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15%
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Kennedy-King College
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486
|
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25%
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15%
|
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Malcolm X College
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521
|
|
9%
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19%
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Olive-Harvey College
|
307
|
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13%
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15%
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Harry S Truman College
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405
|
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20%
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18%
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Harold Washington College
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1,249
|
|
17%
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21%
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Wilbur Wright College
|
906
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|
16%
|
18%
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Source: IPEDS 2016-2017 Graduation Rates Survey
*The fall 2013 cohort includes all first-time, full-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates.
1 The graduation rate is the percent of the fall 2013 cohort of first-time, full-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates who completed a degree or certificate within 150% of the normal time to completion. For an Associate’s Degree, 150% time is 3 years.
2 The transfer-out rate is the percent of the fall 2013 cohort of first-time, full-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates who are known to have transferred out of the institution within 150% of the normal time to completion for the degree or certificate they are pursuing (includes transfer to 4-year institutions, 2- year institutions and other City Colleges of Chicago).
Retention Rates
Institutions must also make available to current and prospective students the retention rate of certificate/degree-seeking, first-time, undergraduate students as reported to IPEDS. The retention rates for students beginning in Fall 2015* are provided in the table below.
City Colleges of Chicago IPEDS Retention Rates1 Fall 2015 and Fall 2016
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College
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Full-Time Students
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Part-time Students
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Richard J. Daley College
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67%
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37%
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Kennedy-King College
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46%
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20%
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Malcolm X College
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56%
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38%
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Olive-Harvey College
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49%
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60%
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Harry S Truman College
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50%
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38%
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Harold Washington College
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58%
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33%
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Wilbur Wright College
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|
70%
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47%
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Source: IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey, Fall 2016
*The fall 2015 cohort includes all first-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates.
1The retention rate is the percent of the fall 2015 cohort of first-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates who returned in fall 2016.
Student-Athlete Graduation Rates
The Federal Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act of 1990 requires institution that participate in any Title IV program and is attended by students receiving athletically-related student aid to disclose graduation rates by race/ethnicity, gender and by sport, and the average completion or graduation rate for the four most recent years. City Colleges of Chicago provides the following information on the graduation rates of full-time, first-time degree seeking undergraduate and student-athletes that have received athletically related financial aid. This report contains graduation/completion rates of students receiving athletically-related student aid by gender and by sport for the most recent entering cohort of students in which data is available. These data are not disaggregated by racial and ethnic subgroup or receipt of different categories of financial aid as the resulting number of students in these subgroups is insufficient to preserve confidentiality. Data are also not provided for cohort years after 2009 as the total number of students for all sports are insufficient to preserve confidentiality.
150% Graduation Rates for Students Receiving Athletically Related Aid, Fall 2009 Cohort*
| College | Men | Women | Total | |||
| # of Students Receiving Athletically Related Aid | 150% Graduation Rate | # of Students Receiving Athletically Related Aid | 150% Graduation Rate | # of Students Receiving Athletically Related Aid | 150% Graduation Rate | |
| BASKETBALL | ||||||
| Richard J. Daley College | 5 | 0% | 2 | ** | 7 | 14% |
| Harold Washington College | ||||||
| Kennedy-King College | ||||||
| Malcolm X College | 6 | 0% | 3 | ** | 9 | 0% |
| Olive-Harvey College | 4 | ** | 4 | ** | 8 | 13% |
| Harry S Truman College | 3 | ** | 3 | ** | ||
| Wilbur Wright College | 1 | ** | 3 | ** | 4 | ** |
| BASEBALL | ||||||
| Richard J. Daley College | ||||||
| Harold Washington College | ||||||
| Kennedy-King College | ||||||
| Malcolm X College | ||||||
| Olive-Harvey College | 2 | ** | 2 | ** | ||
| Harry S Truman College | ||||||
| Wilbur Wright College | ||||||
| ANY OTHER SPORT (excluding football, basketball, baseball, and cross country and track) | ||||||
| Richard J. Daley College | 3 | ** | 1 | ** | 4 | ** |
| Harold Washington College | ||||||
| Kennedy-King College | ||||||
| Malcolm X College | ||||||
| Olive-Harvey College | 2 | ** | 2 | ** | ||
| Harry S Truman College | ||||||
| Wilbur Wright College | 2 | ** | 2 | ** | ||
| ALL SPORTS | ||||||
| Richard J. Daley College | 8 | 0% | 3 | ** | 11 | 9% |
| Harold Washington College | ||||||
| Kennedy-King College | ||||||
| Malcolm X College | 6 | 0% | 3 | ** | 9 | 0% |
| Olive-Harvey College | 6 | 0% | 6 | 17% | 12 | 8% |
| Harry S Truman College | 3 | ** | 3 | ** | ||
| Wilbur Wright College | 3 | ** | 3 | ** | 6 | 0% |
*Cohort includes first-time students in Fall 2009 who received athletically related aid
**Note: Graduation rates for groups with less than five students have not been disclosed in order to protect student confidentiality.
Job Placement for Graduates
In compliance with the Student Right to Know Act, City Colleges of Chicago provides the following information regarding job placement for graduates.
In order to evaluate student outcomes and program effectiveness, City Colleges of Chicago surveys its graduates/program completers one year after completion of an award regarding employment activities. Invitations to participate in the 2015 City Colleges of Chicago Graduate employment Follow-Up Study were emailed to students who graduated from City Colleges of Chicago with certificates or associate degrees between the summer of 2013 and spring of 2014 semesters. Employment rates are provided for survey respondents in the table below.
Employment of FY 2014 Graduates
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College
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Percent Employed
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Richard J. Daley College
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79.2%
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Harold Washington College
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77.7%
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Kennedy-King College
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68.5%
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Malcolm X College
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80.3%
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Olive-Harvey College
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67.1%
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Harry S Truman College
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76.7%
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Wilbur Wright College
|
77.5%
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