Rend Lake College is located in Ina, Illinois, 30 miles from Wayne City. Its campus size is 350 acres; it therefore welcomes about 5,400 students.

Rend Lake College offers programs that include courses in General Studies, College Preparatory Programs, Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Community Service.

In this college, fifty programs are offered including Agriculture, Communications, Sociology, History, Biological Sciences, Architecture, and Criminal Justice. Students can be certificated in 17 different fields and acquire degrees.

To enroll, students are required to complete specified prerequisites prior to applying to special programs. Indeed, the admission to Rend Lake does not guarantee entrance into a particular program of study, because students may have to meet specific requirements for the admission into certain courses.

Finally, students enrolling in Rend Lake will be placed in classes best suited for them best based on their ACT/SAT scores.