Concordia University Chicago acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

Concordia University Chicago is a private college in Illinois that admits most qualified applicants (around 93%), which puts it in the accessible range. A rate like this means it admits most qualified applicants; the bar is less about clearing a single cutoff and more about how your full profile compares to admitted students.

Use this page to see what Concordia University Chicago weighs, where it ranks among Illinois schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1140, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Concordia University Chicago with a 3.1 GPA and a 1080 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1080 SAT, the middle of Concordia University Chicago's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1140 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

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Getting into Concordia University Chicago comes down to four decisions, each one visible in the data on this page.

4,607 students applied to Concordia University Chicago for fall 2023; 4,301 were admitted (93.4%). 327 enrolled. Only about 8% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Concordia University Chicago enrolls about 1,323 undergraduates in total, 52% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 13 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

Concordia University Chicago reports that it neither requires nor recommends test scores, so admission turns on your transcript, rigor, and the rest of the file.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

Concordia University Chicago signals that it values rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores above the rest of the file. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Concordia University Chicago's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

The full sticker price at Concordia University Chicago (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $45,383 a year. Tuition and fees alone are $37,488. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $18,436 a year, and it ranges from $16,795 for families earning under $30,000 to $23,907 for families earning over $110,000. 46% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Median earnings for Concordia University Chicago students ten years after entry are $54,089 ($44,405 at the six-year mark). 36% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 61% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $23,000; 57% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 37 Illinois schools we track, Concordia University Chicago ranks #35 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like University of Chicago (4%) and Northwestern University (8%) sit nearby, which makes Illinois a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

If Concordia University Chicago is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: Franklin Pierce University, St. Thomas Aquinas College, and WV Wesleyan College. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.