Which university did Kanye West transfer to before dropping out at age 20?

Kanye West transferred to Chicago State University before dropping out at age 20.

After graduating from Polaris High School, West received a scholarship to attend Chicago's American Academy of Art in 1997, where he studied painting. He soon transferred to Chicago State University to study English, the same university where his mother, Donda West, was an English professor and department chair.

West found that his demanding class schedule interfered with his growing musical ambitions. He left college at 20 to pursue music full time, a decision that later became the central idea behind his debut album, The College Dropout.

A common mix-up is confusing Chicago State with the American Academy of Art, which he attended first. Northwestern, DePaul, and Howard were not the universities involved in this part of his biography. West later received an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but that was awarded years after he left college and was not an earned undergraduate degree.