The 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. Almost six thousand faculty and staff help prepare more than 120,000 students each year to enter the workforce, pursue higher education and advance their careers. The District serves students on seven campuses and seven satellite sites. It also oversees two restaurants, five child care centers, a trade school, a pastry school, a center for distance learning, a workforce institute, the WYCC TV Channel 20 public television station, and WKKC 89.3 FM radio station.
For basic enrollment and degree and certificate statistics for each college, view the Statistical Digest.
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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 http://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 2008, 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 2008 Cohort*
College |
Fall 2008 Cohort |
|
Graduation Rate1 |
Transfer-out Rate2 |
Richard J. Daley College |
401 |
|
8% |
23% |
Kennedy-King College |
734 |
|
20% |
31% |
Malcolm X College |
376 |
|
10% |
30% |
Olive-Harvey College |
278 |
|
7% |
28% |
Harry S Truman College |
579 |
|
8% |
37% |
Harold Washington College |
1,003 |
|
6% |
36% |
Wilbur Wright College |
992 |
|
11% |
25% |
Source: IPEDS 2011-2012 Graduation Rates Survey
*The fall 2008 cohort includes all first-time, full-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates.
1 The graduation rate is the percent of the fall 2008 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 20089 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 2010* are provided in the table below.
City Colleges of Chicago IPEDS Retention Rates1 Fall 2010 and Fall 2011
College |
|
Full-Time Students |
Part-time Students |
Richard J. Daley College |
|
47% |
36% |
Kennedy-King College |
|
54% |
28% |
Malcolm X College |
|
44% |
30% |
Olive-Harvey College |
|
42% |
27% |
Harry S Truman College |
|
47% |
27% |
Harold Washington College |
|
52% |
38% |
Wilbur Wright College |
|
59% |
44% |
Source: IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey, Fall 2011
*The fall 2010 cohort includes all first-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates.
1The retention rate is the percent of the fall 2010 cohort of first-time, degree/certificate seeking undergraduates who returned in fall 2011.
Job Placement for Graduates
Gainful Employment
In accordance with the U.S. Department of Education, City Colleges of Chicago has posted Gainful Employment data on its website in order to provide students and parents with useful information to make decisions about career choices and the cost of educational programs. Below is a link to a file that provides information about a subset of the CCC program offerings, which consist of certificates that lead to employment in a recognized occupation and do not lead to an associate's degree. The file provides students and their families with program information including cost (tuition, fees, books, and supplies), on-time graduation rates, job placement rates, and median debt of program graduates. In addition, the Standard Occupational Classification codes (SOC) and titles are provided.
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