Prairie State Wire

At Kennedy King College, 26.3 percent of borrowers who started repaying student loans in 2014 defaulted on those loans by the end of 2016, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of the latest disclosure from the U.S. Department of Education.

The analysis uses data that tracks borrowers at all publicly controlled colleges and universities receiving federal student aid. The 2014 cohort accounts for borrowers who entered repayment on selected federal loans in the given fiscal year and defaulted before the end of the second fiscal year.   

Altogether, 59 public institutions based in Illinois had 75,028 borrowers in repayment in the 2014 cohort. And 8,050 of them were in default – a default rate of 10.73 percent, which is below the national rate of about 11.5 percent.

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Default rate

Name	City	Borrowers in default	Borrowers in repayment	Default rate (%)
City Colleges Of Chicago - Kennedy King College	Chicago	305	1,158	26.3
Olive-Harvey College	Chicago	182	712	25.5
Parkland College	Champaign	506	1,987	25.4
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges - Wabash Valley College	Mount Carmel	12	50	24.0
Southwestern Illinois College	Belleville	506	2,100	24.0
City Colleges Of Chicago - Malcolm X College	Chicago	145	626	23.1
Kishwaukee College	Malta	184	799	23.0
Richland Community College	Decatur	94	415	22.6
Highland Community College	Freeport	64	294	21.7
Kankakee Community College	Kankakee	129	608	21.2
Harold Washington College	Chicago	180	872	20.6
City Colleges Of Chicago Harry S Truman College	Chicago	113	559	20.2
Lake Land College	Mattoon	121	600	20.1
Prairie State College	Chicago Heights	155	817	18.9
John Wood Community College	Quincy	102	557	18.3
Wilbur Wright College	Chicago	51	278	18.3
Lincoln Land Community College	Springfield	163	907	17.9
Black Hawk College	Moline	105	597	17.5
Joliet Junior College	Joliet	198	1,155	17.1
College Of Du Page	Glen Ellyn	540	3,287	16.4
Carl Sandburg College	Galesburg	36	225	16.0
College Of Lake County	Grayslake	136	867	15.6
Sauk Valley Community College	Dixon	41	263	15.5
Rock Valley College	Rockford	101	652	15.4
Illinois Central College	East Peoria	180	1,172	15.3
Lewis And Clark Community College	Godfrey	95	620	15.3
Danville Area Community College	Danville	44	291	15.1
Richard J Daley College-City Colleges Of Chicago	Chicago	42	287	14.6
Rend Lake College	Ina	64	440	14.5
Spoon River College	Canton	40	280	14.2
Morton College	Cicero	38	269	14.1
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges -Frontier Community College	Fairfield	8	57	14.0
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges - Lincoln Trail College	Robinson	13	93	13.9
Illinois Valley Community College	Oglesby	42	302	13.9
Heartland Community College	Normal	79	580	13.6
Mchenry County College	Crystal Lake	63	465	13.5
Moraine Valley Community College	Palos Hills	103	780	13.2
Triton College	River Grove	57	462	12.3
Waubonsee Community College	Sugar Grove	131	1,064	12.3
Elgin Community College	Elgin	119	979	12.1
Kaskaskia College	Centralia	42	384	10.9
Chicago State University	Chicago	246	2,330	10.5
John A. Logan College	Carterville	11	109	10.0
Harper College	Palatine	127	1,273	9.9
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale	Carbondale	491	5,039	9.7
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges - Olney Central College	Olney	10	112	8.9
Oakton Community College	Des Plaines	14	171	8.1
Northern Illinois University	Dekalb	466	5,802	8.0
Western Illinois University	Macomb	263	3,452	7.6
Capital Area Career Center	Springfield	11	148	7.4
Northeastern Illinois University	Chicago	137	1,981	6.9
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Edwardsville	236	3,450	6.8
Eastern Illinois University	Charleston	154	2,809	5.4
Governors State University	University Park	91	1,760	5.1
University Of Illinois At Springfield	Springfield	57	1,233	4.6
Illinois State University	Normal	140	4,529	3.0
University Of Illinois At Chicago	Chicago	153	5,587	2.7
Beck School Of Practical Nursing	Red Bud	2	75	2.6
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	112	6,258	1.7

Source: U.S. Department of Education