Which colleges are most affordable for Illinois residents ? The answer may surprise you.
These rankings of the most affordable colleges for Illinois residents are based on the estimated net price for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of Illinois.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of the school paid by the student and family, after factoring in merit and grant aid from the college federal programs and work study.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Air Force Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,114 | 1335 | 0.1409 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,354 | 1554 | 0.0611 | |
| 3 | Wesleyan University | 5200 | 97600 | 0.9472 | 3,043 | 1435 | 0.1637 | |
| 4 | Colby College | 5800 | 91300 | 0.9361 | 2,360 | 1477 | 0.0803 | |
| 5 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6700 | 15400 | 0.5659 | 207 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 9500 | 40400 | 0.7639 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 7 | University of Tulsa | 9700 | 63100 | 0.8468 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 8 | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | 10200 | 41300 | 0.7533 | 8,945 | 1099 | 0.975 | |
| 9 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 11300 | 87500 | 0.8707 | 14,249 | 1084 | 0.7761 | |
| 10 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 11500 | 27800 | 0.5858 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 11 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 11900 | 39000 | 0.6941 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 12 | Northern Arizona University | 12200 | 30400 | 0.5979 | 22,203 | 1129 | 0.8961 | |
| 12 | University of Illinois Chicago | 12200 | 30200 | 0.5964 | 24,260 | 1174 | 0.7576 | |
| 14 | Brown University | 12900 | 94000 | 0.8627 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 15 | University of North Florida | 13000 | 22400 | 0.4202 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 16 | Northern Illinois University | 13300 | 32200 | 0.5857 | 12,118 | 1070 | 0.7164 | |
| 16 | Wayne State University | 13300 | 46800 | 0.7163 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 18 | Franklin and Marshall College | 13500 | 95700 | 0.8586 | 1,778 | 1387 | 0.3163 | |
| 18 | University of Delaware | 13500 | 34500 | 0.6095 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 20 | Baptist Health Sciences University | 14100 | 42400 | 0.6669 | 782 | 1020 | 0.8202 | |
| 21 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 29800 | 0.4782 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8613 | |
| 22 | University of Kansas | 15700 | 34900 | 0.5504 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 23 | University of West Georgia | 15900 | 57700 | 0.7251 | 10,075 | 1035 | 0.7995 | |
| 24 | Lindsey Wilson University | 16000 | 49300 | 0.6757 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 25 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16200 | 65300 | 0.7517 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 26 | Duke University | 17300 | 98500 | 0.8246 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 27 | Centre College | 17900 | 73400 | 0.7557 | 1,385 | 1323 | 0.4816 | |
| 28 | Albright College | 18000 | 51600 | 0.6514 | 1,210 | 1079 | 0.9408 | |
| 29 | San Jose State University | 18200 | 41100 | 0.5567 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 30 | Central Washington University | 18500 | 22700 | 0.1848 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 31 | Columbia College | 18800 | 60700 | 0.6898 | 1,566 | 950 | 0.966 | |
| 32 | Life Pacific University | 19200 | 60100 | 0.6805 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 33 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 19300 | 38900 | 0.5034 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 34 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 19400 | 74500 | 0.7398 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 35 | Rowan University | 20300 | 41300 | 0.5088 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 36 | East Texas Baptist University | 20900 | 68900 | 0.6967 | 1,663 | 1059 | 0.7306 | |
| 37 | Mount Aloysius College | 21400 | 51100 | 0.581 | 3,135 | 1045 | 0.936 | |
| 38 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 22500 | 42000 | 0.4648 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 39 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 22700 | 85400 | 0.7344 | 3,007 | 1135 | 0.8572 | |
| 40 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23400 | 28100 | 0.167 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 41 | University of Jamestown | 24200 | 34400 | 0.2964 | 1,097 | 1055 | 0.88 | |
| 41 | Walsh University | 24200 | 46400 | 0.4784 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 43 | George Fox University | 26400 | 92800 | 0.7157 | 3,530 | 1168 | 0.9282 | |
| 44 | Cornell College | 27300 | 74800 | 0.6345 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 44 | Florida Atlantic University | 27300 | 27300 | 0 | 25,626 | 1150 | 0.5497 | |
| 46 | Houston Christian University | 27400 | 60500 | 0.5474 | 3,277 | 1099 | 0.8645 | |
| 47 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 94100 | 0.7078 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 48 | Wayland Baptist University | 27900 | 36500 | 0.2359 | 1,894 | 1045 | 0.5477 | |
| 49 | University of Southern California | 29700 | 98300 | 0.698 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 50 | Taylor University | 30100 | 60700 | 0.5037 | 2,769 | 1229 | 0.9881 | |
| 51 | Southern Adventist University | 30800 | 49000 | 0.3712 | 2,946 | 1142 | 0.7163 | |
| 52 | Missouri Baptist University | 31400 | 53800 | 0.4161 | 5,253 | 910 | 0.7062 | |
| 53 | University of Vermont | 31700 | 71700 | 0.5582 | 12,159 | 1372 | 0.7304 | |
| 54 | Chaminade University of Honolulu | 31900 | 78800 | 0.5952 | 1,732 | 1108 | 0.9117 | |
| 55 | Villanova University | 32200 | 92900 | 0.6537 | 6,933 | 1466 | 0.2814 | |
| 56 | Seton Hill University | 33100 | 63700 | 0.4805 | 1,502 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 57 | Harding University | 33400 | 47800 | 0.3012 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 58 | Elizabethtown College | 33600 | 57500 | 0.4154 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 59 | Pace University | 33800 | 75700 | 0.5538 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 60 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 34300 | 59100 | 0.4194 | 23,091 | 1354 | 0.382 | |
| 61 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34500 | 50900 | 0.3223 | 1,961 | 1099 | 0.7512 | |
| 62 | California Baptist University | 34700 | 69800 | 0.5026 | 8,707 | 1024 | 0.8139 | |
| 63 | Florida International University | 36500 | 36800 | 0.0081 | 46,249 | 1180 | 0.6085 | |
| 64 | Andrews University | 37200 | 76700 | 0.5148 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 65 | Point Park University | 37400 | 54300 | 0.3111 | 2,498 | 1144 | 0.984 | |
| 66 | Saint Francis University | 39900 | 67300 | 0.407 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 67 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 40100 | 59200 | 0.3224 | 5,986 | 1110 | 0.8916 | |
| 68 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5061 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 69 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40500 | 83400 | 0.5147 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 70 | Rochester Christian University | 43000 | 45400 | 0.0527 | 1,162 | 970 | 0.9764 | |
| 71 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 43200 | 88100 | 0.5098 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 72 | Wagner College | 46800 | 73400 | 0.3626 | 1,666 | 1240 | 0.88 | |
| 73 | The University of Texas at Austin | 50300 | 59100 | 0.1488 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 74 | Quinnipiac University | 51100 | 79700 | 0.359 | 6,610 | 1250 | 0.7031 | |
| 75 | University of Iowa | 52000 | 54400 | 0.044 | 23,407 | 1203 | 0.799 | |
| 76 | Mount St. Joseph University | 53900 | 54300 | 0.0074 | 1,268 | 1105 | 0.9128 | |
| 77 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 58600 | 67000 | 0.1253 | 5,288 | 1138 | 0.9459 | |
| 78 | University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis | 60300 | 65600 | 0.0808 | 344 | 1125 | 0.8984 | |
| 79 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 60600 | 67600 | 0.1035 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 80 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 66900 | 66900 | 0 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 | |
| 81 | University of California-Santa Cruz | 82900 | 82900 | 0 | 18,194 | 1281 | 0.7273 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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