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Largest speech communication and rhetoric programs in Illinois
Illinois speech communication and rhetoric programs, ranked by awards conferred in 2024, the latest IPEDS completions year on file. At least 5 schools must offer the program for this list to exist.
| Rank | School | City | Sector | Awards conferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois State University | Normal | Public, 4-year | 144 |
| 2 | Northwestern University | Evanston | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 87 |
| 3 | Northern Illinois University | Dekalb | Public, 4-year | 72 |
| 4 | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | Edwardsville | Public, 4-year | 44 |
| 5 | Western Illinois University | Macomb | Public, 4-year | 42 |
| 6 | DePaul University | Chicago | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 36 |
| 7 | Wheaton College | Wheaton | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 34 |
| 8 | Loyola University Chicago | Chicago | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 33 |
| 9 | Lake Forest College | Lake Forest | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 28 |
| 10 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | Carbondale | Public, 4-year | 22 |
| 11 | Aurora University | Aurora | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 19 |
| 12 | DeVry University | Lisle | For-profit, 4-year | 15 |
| 13 | Saint Xavier University | Chicago | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 14 |
| 14 | Benedictine University | Lisle | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 11 |
| 15 | Governors State University | University Park | Public, 4-year | 10 |
| 16 | North Park University | Chicago | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 10 |
| 17 | Augustana College | Rock Island | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 9 |
| 18 | Monmouth College | Monmouth | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 9 |
| 19 | Concordia University-Chicago | River Forest | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 8 |
| 20 | North Central College | Naperville | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 7 |
| 21 | Olivet Nazarene University | Bourbonnais | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 6 |
| 22 | McKendree University | Lebanon | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 5 |
| 23 | Trinity Christian College | Palos Heights | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 5 |
| 24 | Dominican University | River Forest | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 4 |
| 25 | Judson University | Elgin | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 3 |
Completions counts total awards conferred, summed across every credential level, from IPEDS.
How to read this. A larger school naturally confers more awards in a common program; this counts total completions, not selectivity. A campus that is part of one multi-campus system is shown as a single row when more than two of its campuses would otherwise appear.
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