• Chicago State has the lowest tuition of any public university in Illinois
• Chicago State is incomparable for hands-on undergraduate science research in the Chicago area.
• Faculty and students are involved in research for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, Department of Energy and other agencies in such fields as solar cells and fuel cells, microwave chemistry, “self-healing” bone cement, and many more.
•CSU has received more than $8 million in external funding for research in the Department of Chemistry and Physics since 2006.
•CSU nursing students have a 97 percent pass rate on the national licensing examination for registered nurses, significantly higher than the national average.
•Nearly 90 percent of students in CSU’s pre-med program are accepted into medical school.
•The College of Pharmacy is the newest public university pharmacy program in Illinois.
•The College of Education awarded the first doctoral degrees in the university’s history at the spring commencement ceremony.
• Located on the South Side of the city – just off the Dan Ryan Expressway at 95th Street.