William Rainey Harper College Business Programs

William Rainey Harper College is a public institution located in Palatine, Illinois. Palatine is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

Where Is William Rainey Harper College?

Contact details for Harper College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1200 W Algonquin Rd, Palatine, IL 60067-7398
Phone:	847-925-6000
Website:	www.harpercollege.edu

How Do I Get Into Harper College?

You can apply to Harper College online at: https://www.harpercollege.edu/start/apply/index.php

William Rainey Harper College has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford William Rainey Harper College?

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Harper College, approximately 3% of students took out student loans averaging $4,807 a year. That adds up to $19,228 over four years for those students.

William Rainey Harper College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 12,015 undergraduate students at Harper College, with 4,010 being full-time and 8,005 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,010 full-time undergraduates at Harper College, 51% are male and 49% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of William Rainey Harper College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	605
Black or African American	149
Hispanic or Latino	1,009
White	1,998
International Students	58
Other Races/Ethnicities	191

Over 36 countries are represented at Harper College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are South Korea, India, and China.

Online Learning at William Rainey Harper College

In 2022-2023, 6,216 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Harper College has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 26th most popular in Illinois for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2022-2023.

William Rainey Harper College Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Undergraduate Certificate	TOTAL
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping	92	15	0	107
Parts, Warehousing, and Inventory Management Operations	74	18	0	92
General Business Administration and Management	25	52	0	77
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	39	0	0	39
Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management	22	0	0	22
Accounting	5	0	6	11
General Hospitality Administration/Management	0	11	0	11
Insurance	8	0	0	8
Hotel/Motel Administration/Management	7	0	0	7
Fashion Merchandising	0	6	0	6
Small Business Administration/Management	4	0	0	4
Professional Sales	4	0	0	4
Retailing and Retail Operations	4	0	0	4
Banking and Financial Support Services	3	0	0	3
General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	1	0	0	1
General Office Occupations and Clerical Services	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	288	102	6	396

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.