Roosevelt University
Chicago, IL
Roosevelt University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois, a large city, with 2,849 undergraduates. The arts and education are its signature fields: together they make up 25% of its bachelor's degrees, about three times their share across the colleges we cover. 35% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $48,712 ten years after starting.
Roosevelt University admitted 5,644 of 5,987 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (94.3%).
- Acceptance rate
- 94.3%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $21,315
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $20,194
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 21–29
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Roosevelt University is known for
Measured by the 614 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
The arts
13.7%
of its bachelor's degrees: about three times the 4.9% share across the colleges we cover.
Education
11.7%
of its bachelor's degrees: about three times the 3.9% share across the colleges we cover.
- Psychology599.6% of degrees$52,049About the $50,706 national median
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft528.5% of degrees$37,748−5% vs $39,775 nationally
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods508.1% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods376.0% of degrees$69,382−19% vs $86,176 nationally
- Criminal Justice and Corrections355.7% of degrees$63,081+14% vs $55,378 nationally
- Biology284.6% of degrees$63,274+11% vs $57,214 nationally
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Large city
Chicago, IL
Undergraduates
2,849
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Doctoral and professional university
Living on campus
A quarter to half
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
11 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
6%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Roosevelt University
Three things Roosevelt University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
The admit rate rose from 65% to 94% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023
18% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 3% sent an ACT. Roosevelt University files test scores under “considered”.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $20,194 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
94.3%
5,644 admitted of 5,987 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 430–550Math 390–540
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
21–29
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
18%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
3%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Roosevelt University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Roosevelt University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $21,315, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $35,332. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $20,194 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$21,315
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$35,332
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$20,194
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $35,332 full cost.
- Under $30k$18,018Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$18,280Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$20,266Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$24,944Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$27,157Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
35%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
62%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$48,712
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$22,000
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate rose from 65% to 94%.
What Roosevelt University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Recommendations
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in Illinois
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Concordia University-Chicago93.4%
- Greenville University95.4%
- National Louis University93.1%
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville97.2%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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