Theology is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #127 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Theology Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 339 degrees in theology annually.
Your choice of theology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Theology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Theology Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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The schools below may not offer all types of theology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in theology needs to take a look at Moody Bible Institute. Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.
There were about 21 theology students who graduated with this degree at Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in theology has to look into Trinity International University - Illinois. Located in the suburb of Deerfield, TIU Illinois is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly small student population.
There were about 61 theology students who graduated with this degree at TIU Illinois in the most recent data year.
Wheaton College Illinois is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in theology. Wheaton College Illinois is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Wheaton.
There were about 30 theology students who graduated with this degree at Wheaton College Illinois in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Your choice of theology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Theology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
