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 faculty and staff help prepare over 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.

CCC FY23 Statistical Digest (As of March 7, 2024)

Consumer Information

The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA), requires institutions to disclose certain information to prospective students, current students, and employees. The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) contains numerous federal reporting and disclosure requirements for information from various administrative areas of higher education institutions. In order to make this information readily available, this webpage has been designed to provide quick access to this data. Consumer information is provided for each of our colleges.

Please refer to the Consumer Information page for your college to find general consumer information subject areas, links to references, reports and additional details.

City Colleges of Chicago Consumer Information Pages

Richard J. Daley College 

Harold Washington College 

Kennedy-King College 

Malcolm X College 

Olive-Harvey College 

Truman College 

Wilbur Wright College 

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 the given Fall term, 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 2020 Cohort

 Source: IPEDS 2023-2024 Graduation Rates Survey, Fall 2020 Cohort College Navigator – National Center for Education Statistics

¹ The graduation rate is the percent of the fall 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 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 the given Fall term are provided in the table below.

 City Colleges of Chicago IPEDS Retention Rates* Fall 2022 to Fall 2023

 Source: IPEDS 2023-2024 Fall Enrollment Survey, Fall 2022 Cohort

 *The retention rate is the percent of the fall cohort of first-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates who returned in the subsequent fall term.

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 2020 Cohort*

*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.