Private for-profit · Community college
Verve College
Oak Brook, Illinois · Large suburb
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Verve College is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Oak Brook, Illinois (large suburb setting), enrolling 176 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Oak Brook, Illinois
Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County and Cook County, Illinois, United States. Oak Brook was originally known as Fullersburg, named after Ben Fuller, an early settler. While many Oak Brook residents commute to jobs scattered throughout the Chicago metropolitan area, Oak Brook is also the home of many corporate offices. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Large suburb
- Highest degree offered
- Certificate
- Nearest big city
- 18 miles to Chicago, IL
- To Great Lakes shore
- 19 miles
- Nearest airport
- 10 miles to Chicago O'Hare (ORD) · major hub
How Verve College compares
Lower than 32%
Lower than 12%
Larger than 42%
Percentiles compare Verve College with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Illinois.
Student body
Undergraduates by gender
- Women15990%
- Men1710%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White8.0%
- Black65%
- Hispanic13%
- Asian14%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 176
- Student–faculty ratio
- 25 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 88%
- First-generation students
- 56%
- Students over 25
- 86%
- Median family income
- $19,063
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Outcomes
- Graduated
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- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $56,469
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
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- Median debt at graduation
- $11,600
- Students with federal loans
- 96%
- Paying down their loans (1 year in)
- 33%
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $75
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 84°F
- Winter low
- 15°F
- Annual rain
- 40.2″
- Annual snow
- 24.3″
Average temperature
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NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Lisle-Morton Arboretum, IL US station (5 mi from campus).
What Verve College graduates study — and earn
Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.