 Eleven years later, in 1990, having experienced tremendous growth in its graduate offerings, the school reorganized and changed its legal name to Concordia University.Since then the institution has branded itself as Concordia University River Forest (1990–2006) and Concordia University Chicago (2006–present)

Concordia University Chicago has five colleges, each chaired by an academic dean.Many of these students attend classes online or at Cohort (educational group) sites around the Chicago metropolitan area.