CCC TRANSFER RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
Every year, City Colleges graduates head off to their dream transfer school, whether in Illinois or out of state. By
transferring to a four-year college or university after graduation, students can save up to $40,000 in tuition on the way
to a bachelor’s degree. Transfer and academic advising resources at each college and the institution’s many system-wide
articulation agreements with four-year schools help students achieve huge savings. They also support a core goal of City
Colleges’ Reinvention initiative, which is to increase the rate of transfer to bachelor’s degrees programs following
graduation.
Seamlessly transferring to a four-year school requires careful planning—but it’s never too late to start. Each college-level
course credit earned at City Colleges may not transfer to certain four-year schools, which means it’s important to
identify target transfer institutions as early as possible and follow a program pathway comprised of transferable courses.
Here’s a quick guide to how City Colleges helps students continue their education after graduation.
TRANSFER CENTERS
Each of the seven City Colleges has a Transfer Center with full-time staff on hand to help students:
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identify four-year institutions that might be a good fit
create an academic plan to ensure your classes are transferrable to target schools
find out about transfer agreements with four-year institutions
learn about campus events featuring recruiters from four-year schools
learn about special scholarships available to transfer students
apply successfully to transfer schools
Additionally, Transfer Centers help students visit four-year schools around the country. Visit ccc.edu/transfer to learn
more about the Transfer Centers!
SCHOLARSHIPS
Some of City Colleges’ transfer agreements with four-year schools provide graduates with unique financial or scholarship
opportunities. For example, an agreement with the Illinois Institute of Technology allows students admitted to IIT to be
eligible to receive a Presidential Scholarship, which includes a $23,500 annual tuition award for up to three years along
with a $5,000 annual housing cost award.
Visit ccc.edu/transfer scholarships [CREATE REDIRECT TO THIS PAGE] for more details.
AGREEMENTS WITH FOUR-YEAR SCHOOLS
Through the Illinois Articulation Agreement (IAI), City Colleges has an agreement with more 48 public and private
colleges and universities to accept a package of City Colleges’ general education courses in lieu of their own lower-level
courses.
In addition to the IAI, City Colleges has 25 articulation agreements signed directly with four-year partner schools. Some
of these guarantee junior status to any admitted student, while others pertain to specific programs at the four-year
school. To strengthen and expand connections to four-year institutions, City Colleges in 2013 created a new District-level
Transfer and Articulation Office, which leads the effort to increase transfers through partnerships with other institutions.
The four-year schools CCC has agreements with include:
Aurora University
Benedictine University
Blackburn College
Bradley University
Concordia University Chicago
DePaul University**
DeVry University
DeVry University, Chicago
DeVry University, DuPage
Dominican University**
East-West University*
Elmhurst College
Fisk University*
Franklin University*
Governors State University
Illinois College
Illinois Institute of Art
Illinois Institute of Technology*
Judson University
Kendall College
Lewis University**
Lexington College
Lincoln Christian University
Lincoln College
MacMurray College
McKendree University
Midstate College
Millikin University
National-Louis University
North Central College
North Park University
Olivet Nazarene University
Quincy University
Resurrection University*
Robert Morris University
Rockford University
Roosevelt University**
Rush University Medical Center*
Saint Xavier University
Shimer College*
St. Augustine College
Trinity Christian College
Trinity International University
University of St. Francis
Chicago State University**
Eastern Illinois University**
Illinois State University
Northeastern Illinois University**
Northern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale**
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
University of Illinois at Chicago**
University of Illinois at Springfield**
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign**
Western Illinois University
*Direct agreement between CCC and school regarding guaranteed admission, junior status for CCC degree holder or specific program.
**School has direct agreement(s) with CCC and is also part of IAI.
SUCCESS STORIES
Here is a sampling of four-year schools to which City Colleges graduates have successfully transferred in recent years:
Columbia University
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
Vanderbilt University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Southern California
Northwestern University
Cornell University
Iowa State University
Kentucky State University
Purdue University
Indiana University – Northwest
Eastern Illinois University
Ferris State University
Lindenwood University
Northern State University
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
University of Alaska Southeast
University of Texas
University of Richmond (Virginia)
University of Denver
University of California at Berkeley