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 | 4,124 | 1344 | 0.1393 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 3 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 4900 | 40700 | 0.8787 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 4 | Colby College | 5100 | 90200 | 0.9432 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 5 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1405 | 0.1649 | |
| 6 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 7500 | 13200 | 0.4311 | 215 | 0 | 0.8208 | |
| 7 | Franklin and Marshall College | 10800 | 90300 | 0.8806 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 8 | Duke University | 11400 | 93600 | 0.8784 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 9 | Brown University | 11600 | 94000 | 0.8763 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 10 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 12100 | 51900 | 0.7672 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 10 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 12100 | 33400 | 0.6372 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 12 | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | 12700 | 34600 | 0.6336 | 8,975 | 1065 | 0.9721 | |
| 13 | Lindsey Wilson College | 13000 | 60700 | 0.7854 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 14 | Northern Illinois University | 13200 | 29000 | 0.5435 | 11,349 | 1070 | 0.6979 | |
| 15 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,919 | 1245 | 0.7844 | |
| 16 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 34500 | 0.6058 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 17 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 14300 | 28100 | 0.4911 | 8,553 | 1054 | 0.8688 | |
| 18 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15100 | 37700 | 0.6009 | 5,241 | 1075 | 0.8613 | |
| 19 | Central Washington University | 15600 | 22700 | 0.3124 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 20 | University of North Florida | 15800 | 33000 | 0.5216 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 21 | The University of Montana-Western | 16500 | 42900 | 0.6159 | 1,440 | 990 | 0.995 | |
| 21 | Wayne State University | 16500 | 46200 | 0.643 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 23 | University of Kansas | 16600 | 37100 | 0.5511 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 24 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16800 | 64800 | 0.7416 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 25 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8078 | 797 | 1360 | 0.4453 | |
| 26 | Houston Christian University | 17600 | 56800 | 0.6901 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8458 | |
| 27 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 18000 | 46400 | 0.6126 | 767 | 1108 | 0.7277 | |
| 27 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 18000 | 35300 | 0.4896 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 29 | Northern Michigan University | 18700 | 33100 | 0.4351 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 30 | University of West Georgia | 19100 | 48000 | 0.6024 | 9,157 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 31 | The University of Texas at Austin | 19400 | 27600 | 0.2966 | 43,165 | 1348 | 0.2664 | |
| 32 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 19600 | 78700 | 0.751 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 33 | Illinois College | 19800 | 55200 | 0.642 | 940 | 1054 | 0.7819 | |
| 34 | University of Southern California | 20000 | 75800 | 0.7365 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 35 | University of Tulsa | 20200 | 62900 | 0.6789 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 36 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 20600 | 42500 | 0.5159 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 37 | Centre College | 21000 | 73400 | 0.7135 | 1,356 | 1330 | 0.5434 | |
| 38 | Albright College | 21200 | 49300 | 0.5699 | 1,328 | 1050 | 0.8615 | |
| 39 | East Texas Baptist University | 22100 | 58700 | 0.6233 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 40 | San Jose State University | 22200 | 41100 | 0.46 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 41 | Columbia College | 22700 | 39700 | 0.4287 | 1,268 | 950 | 0.9614 | |
| 42 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 22800 | 72400 | 0.6851 | 2,934 | 1130 | 0.9004 | |
| 43 | Life Pacific University | 23400 | 50300 | 0.5343 | 396 | 1055 | 0.9395 | |
| 44 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23700 | 28100 | 0.1578 | 946 | 1080 | 0.8271 | |
| 45 | Walsh University | 24200 | 46400 | 0.4784 | 1,423 | 1189 | 0.7815 | |
| 46 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 25600 | 64100 | 0.6007 | 2,398 | 1059 | 0.8464 | |
| 47 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27100 | 80600 | 0.6641 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 48 | University of Jamestown | 27400 | 34400 | 0.2035 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 49 | Cornell College | 27500 | 74800 | 0.6322 | 1,085 | 1243 | 0.8066 | |
| 50 | George Fox University | 27700 | 76800 | 0.6393 | 3,401 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 51 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6856 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 52 | Mercy University | 28700 | 44500 | 0.3552 | 6,775 | 1074 | 0.8584 | |
| 53 | Southern Adventist University | 29900 | 46900 | 0.3634 | 2,827 | 1112 | 0.6661 | |
| 54 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.4731 | 2,503 | 1235 | 0.7353 | |
| 55 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 31300 | 59600 | 0.4745 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
| 56 | Missouri Baptist University | 31700 | 53800 | 0.4113 | 4,958 | 843 | 0.686 | |
| 57 | Harding University | 32900 | 47000 | 0.3008 | 3,523 | 1193 | 0.3942 | |
| 58 | California Baptist University | 33600 | 65600 | 0.4876 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 59 | Elizabethtown College | 33700 | 55900 | 0.3974 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 60 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4787 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 61 | Pace University | 34600 | 74800 | 0.5373 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 62 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34700 | 50900 | 0.3172 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 63 | New York Institute of Technology | 35500 | 83600 | 0.5753 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 64 | Andrews University | 35800 | 62100 | 0.4235 | 1,312 | 1196 | 0.874 | |
| 65 | Florida International University | 36500 | 36800 | 0.0081 | 44,904 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 66 | Seton Hill University | 36600 | 88000 | 0.5844 | 1,597 | 1180 | 0.7579 | |
| 67 | Saint Francis University | 37900 | 62800 | 0.3967 | 2,450 | 1150 | 0.7916 | |
| 68 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5067 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 69 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40700 | 83400 | 0.5122 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 70 | Quinnipiac University | 41300 | 79200 | 0.4784 | 6,248 | 1209 | 0.77 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 43300 | 45400 | 0.047 | 1,144 | 980 | 0.653 | |
| 72 | Florida Atlantic University | 44400 | 44400 | 0 | 24,942 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 73 | University of Iowa | 51100 | 53200 | 0.0401 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 74 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 75 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54200 | 54200 | 0 | 1,545 | 1134 | 0.5915 | |
| 76 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 58900 | 67000 | 0.1214 | 5,162 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 77 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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