No official body publishes an ILPRO pass rate. Not the Illinois Pharmacists Association, which developed the program and runs it. Not the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, the agency that issues the license. Not Continental Testing Services, which processes Illinois pharmacist exam applications. As of September 2026, none of the three appears ever to have published one.
The only ILPRO performance figure any official source publishes is the passing standard. IPhA's program page states: "Participants have one opportunity to score 75% or better on the assessment." Two facts sit in that sentence, and neither is a percentage of candidates who got through.
How hard did we look for an ILPRO pass rate?
Eleven official sources, checked on September 23, 2026. IPhA's ILPRO page is the obvious place to begin, since IPhA administers the program and IDFPR sends applicants there. Nothing. IDFPR's own June 2026 ILPRO notice next, read start to finish, then its pharmacy profession page, then the State Board of Pharmacy page. Nothing there either. IDFPR's FY24 annual report, all 66 pages. The 2019 Regulatory Sunset Act review of the Pharmacy Practice Act. Five pages at Continental Testing Services, the Illinois registered pharmacist application instructions included. That is eleven, and not one of them carries a pass rate.
Some of those negatives are sharper than others. The FY24 annual report contains zero occurrences of MPJE, ILPRO, NAPLEX, pass rate or jurisprudence. The agency that licenses Illinois pharmacists published 66 pages about its own year and never mentioned exam performance. The Sunset Act review does report numbers, but they count licensed pharmacists rather than exam results.
The State Board of Pharmacy page deserves a note, because it is where most people would start. It carries meeting minutes, agendas, the board roster, and IDFPR's ILPRO notice, which asks applicants who came through CTS to email CTS if they intend to complete the ILPRO instead of the MPJE. It publishes no reports and no statistics.
The page is not incomplete. Illinois does not run pharmacy through a self-governing board the way several states do. IDFPR licenses, renews and disciplines. The Board advises. Its own page puts the role this way: the Board "advises the Secretary on matters involving standards of professional conduct, discipline and qualifications of candidates and licensees under the Act." So the page a candidate instinctively treats as the regulator's statistics page belongs to a body that issues no licenses and has no cohort to report on. The Illinois ILPRO, explained lays out how the requirement fits together.
Why does no ILPRO pass rate exist?
The ILPRO is not an exam. It is an ACPE-accredited continuing education program from IPhA: 2.0 contact hours, over ten self-paced modules delivered online, $125, with a single assessment at the end that you need 75 percent on. There is no test center and no proctor. The score you get is the score, with nothing scaled.
A pass rate is a statistic somebody has a reason to compute. NABP computes MPJE figures because the MPJE is a scored licensure exam with an identifiable candidate cohort, a psychometric standard and boards that want the data. The ILPRO has a fixed threshold written into the program and one attempt per registration. Nobody owns the job of counting how many participants clear it, and no rule obliges anyone to start.
Timing makes it worse. HB4154 was signed on June 1, 2026 and replaced the pharmacy jurisprudence examination requirement with the ILPRO. The program's ACPE release date is June 10, 2026. Anyone minded to publish a figure would be working from a few months of data. Expect this number to stay unpublished rather than to arrive late.
What does the 75 percent standard actually tell you?
It tells you the bar is fixed. Your result does not depend on how the rest of the intake performed, which is the opposite of how candidates instinctively read a threshold on a licensure exam. There is no curve.
Do not run the arithmetic backwards. A 75 percent passing standard says nothing about what share of participants reach it, and any site presenting the threshold as though it were a pass rate has confused the two.
The phrase to worry about in that sentence is "one opportunity". IPhA also states that "Registration allows one opportunity to successfully complete all required elements of the CE." Nothing published says what happens if you fall short. Not IPhA's page, not IDFPR's notice. Re-registration, cost, waiting period: silence on all three. Plan on the attempt you have being the only one, and if a definite answer would change what you do, ask IPhA before you register rather than trusting a forum.
Can MPJE pass rates from Illinois schools stand in for one?
Partly, with care, and only if you say out loud what they are.
NABP does publish MPJE pass rates, but the report is organized by pharmacy school and graduation year, never by jurisdiction. Its methodology states that tests from other jurisdictions are not included, so each school's row covers that school's graduates testing in the school's home state. The five Illinois schools carry rows, and on that methodology those rows record MPJE results from tests taken in Illinois.
First attempts by 2025 graduates, from NABP's report prepared January 29, 2026:
| Illinois pharmacy school | First attempts | First-time pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois Chicago (Retzky) | 97 | 43.3% |
| Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | 34 | 47.1% |
| Roosevelt University | 29 | 55.2% |
| Rosalind Franklin University | 11 | 45.5% |
| Chicago State University | 4 | 50.0% |
Read the bottom two rows with the first column in view. Eleven candidates and four candidates are not samples anyone should reason from. Chicago State's 50.0 percent is two passes out of four, and a single different outcome would have moved that figure by 25 points. Only the top row has enough candidates behind it to mean much.
These are first-time MPJE pass rates at Illinois pharmacy schools, and that label is the part to hold on to. They are not a statewide MPJE figure for Illinois, because no statewide figure has been published. They are not an ILPRO pass rate either, because the ILPRO is a different assessment run by a different organization. Anyone who hands you one of these numbers under either of those names has misread the source.
Illinois schools sat in the 40s and 50s for 2025 graduates while several comparable out-of-state schools in the same table ran in the 80 to 90 percent band. That is the one thing the table supports, and it belongs to the MPJE route. It is worth knowing if you are weighing the MPJE, which IDFPR presently still accepts although the ILPRO is now the requirement, a separate question taken up in ILPRO or MPJE: which one does Illinois want?. It says nothing about the ILPRO.
Illinois is not unusual in leaving candidates without a jurisdiction level number. States that do sit the MPJE have the same hole in their published data, and How hard is the Texas MPJE? works through it for Texas.
Does an experienced pharmacist still have to do this?
Yes, and this is where the confident candidates come unstuck. IDFPR's notice names the endorsement route as an ILPRO path: a pharmacist licensed in another state for more than a year completes the ILPRO, then allows two to three weeks for IPhA to forward the completion to IDFPR. Illinois pharmacist licensure steps sets out where that sits in the sequence.
Candidates who have practiced for years assume that because the clinical credential travels with them, the law requirement travels too. It does not, and it never has. Your national exam result and your experience are portable in a way state law is not, which is why a state keeps a jurisprudence requirement at all. Twenty years behind a counter in another state buys you nothing here. A pass rate, if one existed, would tell that candidate nothing useful anyway.
What to use instead of a pass rate
Your own performance by content area. It is the only number in this process that is actually about you, and unlike a pass rate you can have it before you sit anything.
Work in topics, not hours. Answer questions in a content area, score them, and write down which areas you are missing rather than what you scored overall. A 78 percent average across everything hides the one area you are failing outright, and a fixed 75 percent threshold on a single attempt is unforgiving of exactly that. Our Illinois pharmacy law study guide tags every checkpoint question with its topic for that reason. Use the questions to find the area you are weakest in, then go and read that area. Scoring well on a mixed set proves nothing you can act on.
Two weeks of that gives you something a published pass rate never could. A pass rate tells you how a cohort of strangers did. Your content-area breakdown tells you where you would lose points on Thursday.
FAQ
What is the pass rate for the ILPRO assessment?
Nobody publishes one. IPhA, IDFPR and Continental Testing Services publish no ILPRO pass rate, and an eleven-source check on September 23, 2026 turned up no sign one has ever existed. The only official ILPRO performance figure is the passing standard, 75 percent on the assessment.
Is 75 percent the ILPRO pass rate?
No. That is the score you need, not the share of participants who reach it. IPhA's wording is "Participants have one opportunity to score 75% or better on the assessment." The two are different measurements, and nothing published lets you derive the second from the first.
Is there a statewide MPJE pass rate for Illinois?
NABP has never published MPJE pass rates by jurisdiction. Its report groups candidates by pharmacy school and graduation year, and each school's figure covers that school's graduates testing in the school's home state. You can cite a first-time pass rate for an individual Illinois pharmacy school. You cannot cite one for Illinois.
Can I retake the ILPRO if I do not reach 75 percent?
IPhA states that registration allows one opportunity, and publishes nothing about what happens after a failure. Whether re-registration is permitted, what it costs and whether a waiting period applies are all unstated, at IPhA and at IDFPR. Contact IPhA before you register if the answer would change your plans.
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