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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 |
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1 | United States Naval Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,465 | 1314 | 0.0936 | |
1 | University of California-Los Angeles | 0 | 68600 | 1 | 34,398 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
3 | Williams College | 3700 | 89100 | 0.9586 | 2,068 | 1527 | 0.0825 | |
4 | Rice University | 4300 | 85500 | 0.9496 | 4,788 | 1535 | 0.08 | |
5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4800 | 86800 | 0.9444 | 4,576 | 1535 | 0.0485 | |
6 | Colby College | 5100 | 90200 | 0.9432 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
7 | Northeastern University Professional Programs | 5300 | 53000 | 0.8997 | 2,525 | 0 | 0 | |
8 | Yale University | 5500 | 92300 | 0.9403 | 6,717 | 1507 | 0.0387 | |
9 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 91100 | 0.9367 | 3,805 | 1405 | 0.1649 | |
10 | Harvard University | 5900 | 86900 | 0.9325 | 7,038 | 1535 | 0.0365 | |
11 | University of Chicago | 6000 | 87200 | 0.9312 | 7,519 | 1535 | 0.0448 | |
12 | Johns Hopkins University | 6300 | 88600 | 0.9288 | 6,328 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
13 | Amherst College | 7000 | 95600 | 0.9267 | 1,881 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
13 | Wellesley College | 7000 | 90900 | 0.9233 | 2,405 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
15 | Princeton University | 7600 | 81800 | 0.9069 | 5,811 | 1535 | 0.0462 | |
16 | Trinity College | 7900 | 91500 | 0.9137 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
17 | Pomona College | 8600 | 88500 | 0.9028 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
18 | Hamilton College | 8700 | 88400 | 0.9017 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
19 | Vanderbilt University | 8800 | 95000 | 0.9072 | 7,221 | 1527 | 0.0586 | |
20 | Haverford College | 9000 | 97300 | 0.9075 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
21 | Smith College | 9100 | 92700 | 0.9014 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
22 | Washington University in St Louis | 9300 | 96200 | 0.9035 | 8,219 | 1513 | 0.1206 | |
23 | Grinnell College | 9400 | 91400 | 0.8973 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
23 | St Olaf College | 9400 | 75600 | 0.8754 | 3,027 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
25 | Davidson College | 9500 | 89900 | 0.8939 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
26 | Colgate University | 9900 | 91600 | 0.8915 | 3,149 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
27 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 10000 | 94100 | 0.894 | 9,007 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
28 | Bates College | 10100 | 91800 | 0.8898 | 1,684 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
28 | University of Notre Dame | 10100 | 86100 | 0.8826 | 8,880 | 1499 | 0.1127 | |
30 | Cornell University | 10300 | 92000 | 0.8877 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0841 | |
31 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 10800 | 34400 | 0.6852 | 36,970 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
31 | University of Pennsylvania | 10800 | 93000 | 0.884 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
33 | Lafayette College | 11900 | 85800 | 0.8618 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
34 | Mount Holyoke College | 12000 | 89700 | 0.8667 | 2,178 | 1449 | 0.3603 | |
35 | Emory University | 12100 | 90100 | 0.8657 | 7,407 | 1499 | 0.1029 | |
35 | Middlebury College | 12100 | 89800 | 0.8651 | 2,751 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
35 | University of Richmond | 12100 | 87400 | 0.862 | 3,053 | 1484 | 0.222 | |
38 | Northern Illinois University | 12300 | 29000 | 0.574 | 11,339 | 1070 | 0.6979 | |
39 | Northwestern University | 12600 | 87700 | 0.8563 | 8,839 | 1513 | 0.0722 | |
40 | Duke University | 13300 | 93500 | 0.8581 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
41 | Brandeis University | 13500 | 89800 | 0.8494 | 3,629 | 1454 | 0.4051 | |
42 | Georgetown University | 13700 | 92200 | 0.8515 | 7,776 | 1457 | 0.1291 | |
43 | Bowdoin College | 13800 | 89900 | 0.8467 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
44 | Claremont McKenna College | 14000 | 96400 | 0.8547 | 1,390 | 1507 | 0.0959 | |
44 | Reed College | 14000 | 83700 | 0.8323 | 1,045 | 1399 | 0.2461 | |
46 | Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville | 14100 | 41100 | 0.6576 | 8,975 | 1045 | 0.9721 | |
47 | Wake Forest University | 14300 | 88400 | 0.8378 | 5,471 | 1457 | 0.2156 | |
48 | Pittsburg State University | 14500 | 25200 | 0.4245 | 4,491 | 1055 | 0.8727 | |
49 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 14800 | 28100 | 0.4733 | 8,526 | 1054 | 0.8688 | |
49 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
51 | Albion College | 15300 | 72600 | 0.7891 | 1,270 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
52 | The University of Texas at Austin | 15400 | 30700 | 0.4981 | 43,718 | 1335 | 0.2664 | |
53 | New York University | 15500 | 91800 | 0.8309 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
54 | Carleton College | 15600 | 74000 | 0.7886 | 2,127 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
54 | Northeastern University | 15600 | 89900 | 0.8268 | 22,649 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
56 | Carnegie Mellon University | 15800 | 87300 | 0.8188 | 7,616 | 1528 | 0.1166 | |
57 | Dickinson College | 16400 | 90100 | 0.8179 | 2,311 | 1399 | 0.4209 | |
57 | Tufts University | 16400 | 92400 | 0.8229 | 6,972 | 1507 | 0.1153 | |
59 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 16600 | 78300 | 0.7881 | 17,885 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
60 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16700 | 64800 | 0.7419 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
61 | Colorado College | 16900 | 91200 | 0.8151 | 1,979 | 1357 | 0.1847 | |
62 | Denison University | 17000 | 69300 | 0.7549 | 2,405 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
63 | Barnard College | 17600 | 93200 | 0.8112 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
64 | Macalester College | 17700 | 88200 | 0.7997 | 2,022 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
65 | Bucknell University | 17800 | 88400 | 0.7984 | 3,915 | 1284 | 0.2893 | |
65 | Skidmore College | 17800 | 89100 | 0.7998 | 2,702 | 1421 | 0.2105 | |
67 | Union College | 18000 | 91000 | 0.8023 | 2,063 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
68 | Eastern Michigan University | 18500 | 36100 | 0.4867 | 10,470 | 1055 | 0.7964 | |
69 | University of Southern California | 19000 | 76000 | 0.7499 | 21,023 | 1485 | 0.1002 | |
70 | University of Southern Mississippi | 19700 | 26300 | 0.2506 | 10,193 | 1181 | 0.9912 | |
71 | Western Michigan University | 20300 | 31200 | 0.349 | 13,860 | 1104 | 0.846 | |
72 | Brown University | 20400 | 93900 | 0.7825 | 7,909 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
73 | Wheaton College | 20900 | 82000 | 0.745 | 2,119 | 1351 | 0.8998 | |
74 | University of Miami | 21500 | 70800 | 0.6967 | 13,221 | 1406 | 0.189 | |
75 | Lycoming College | 21600 | 65800 | 0.672 | 807 | 1189 | 0.7407 | |
76 | Hobart William Smith Colleges | 21900 | 81100 | 0.7297 | 1,767 | 1313 | 0.6399 | |
77 | Bentley University | 22000 | 84500 | 0.7394 | 4,524 | 1359 | 0.4505 | |
78 | University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 22100 | 22200 | 0.0045 | 11,874 | 1082 | 0.8377 | |
79 | Ave Maria University | 22300 | 44800 | 0.502 | 1,250 | 1193 | 0.4481 | |
80 | Florida State University | 22600 | 25000 | 0.0962 | 32,709 | 1360 | 0.2422 | |
81 | Murray State University | 23100 | 25600 | 0.0975 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
82 | Oberlin College | 23200 | 90000 | 0.7425 | 2,950 | 1430 | 0.3298 | |
83 | Lawrence University | 23300 | 71900 | 0.6755 | 1,414 | 1293 | 0.6394 | |
84 | Beloit College | 23500 | 75600 | 0.6895 | 1,004 | 1298 | 0.6304 | |
84 | Missouri State University-Springfield | 23500 | 25700 | 0.0856 | 20,584 | 1134 | 0.9053 | |
84 | Syracuse University | 23500 | 83100 | 0.7172 | 15,955 | 1363 | 0.4611 | |
87 | University of Rochester | 23600 | 93100 | 0.7467 | 6,554 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
88 | Earlham College | 24400 | 75800 | 0.678 | 649 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
89 | Calvin University | 24500 | 53000 | 0.5379 | 3,356 | 1214 | 0.7091 | |
89 | Minnesota State University Moorhead | 24500 | 26600 | 0.0809 | 3,413 | 1085 | 0.5295 | |
91 | University of West Alabama | 24700 | 35100 | 0.2959 | 2,673 | 970 | 0.8711 | |
92 | Occidental College | 24800 | 87900 | 0.7178 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
93 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 25100 | 36600 | 0.3146 | 70,646 | 1203 | 0.8989 | |
93 | Boston College | 25100 | 94600 | 0.7347 | 9,654 | 1490 | 0.1619 | |
93 | Scripps College | 25100 | 91600 | 0.7257 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
96 | Ball State University | 25400 | 25900 | 0.0193 | 15,189 | 1170 | 0.855 | |
97 | Lake Forest College | 25500 | 76700 | 0.6672 | 1,813 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
98 | St Lawrence University | 25800 | 87600 | 0.7056 | 1,947 | 1359 | 0.5434 | |
99 | Northern Kentucky University | 26700 | 31600 | 0.1549 | 10,162 | 1090 | 0.8307 | |
99 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 26700 | 83600 | 0.6809 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
101 | The University of the South | 27000 | 74700 | 0.6383 | 1,627 | 1313 | 0.569 | |
102 | Emporia State University | 27100 | 37700 | 0.2809 | 2,396 | 1075 | 0.9771 | |
103 | Weber State University | 27500 | 33300 | 0.1742 | 31,625 | 1075 | 1 | |
104 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6856 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
105 | American University | 28200 | 82000 | 0.6563 | 7,476 | 1372 | 0.6187 | |
105 | Goucher College | 28200 | 77000 | 0.6337 | 977 | 1228 | 0.777 | |
107 | The College of Wooster | 28300 | 79000 | 0.6412 | 1,736 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
108 | Connecticut College | 28500 | 83300 | 0.6583 | 1,990 | 1287 | 0.3704 | |
108 | Dartmouth College | 28500 | 91100 | 0.6868 | 4,508 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
108 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 28500 | 55800 | 0.4894 | 22,672 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
111 | Knox College | 28600 | 61000 | 0.5318 | 1,134 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
111 | University of Akron Main Campus | 28600 | 31500 | 0.0921 | 11,127 | 1069 | 0.5967 | |
111 | University of Hartford | 28600 | 70100 | 0.5921 | 4,222 | 1224 | 0.9579 | |
114 | Clarkson University | 28800 | 78000 | 0.6309 | 2,296 | 1302 | 0.7736 | |
115 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 29900 | 31100 | 0.0385 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
116 | Kent State University at Kent | 30000 | 37500 | 0.2 | 20,841 | 1105 | 0.8634 | |
116 | Sonoma State University | 30000 | 40200 | 0.2539 | 5,412 | 1095 | 0.9473 | |
118 | San Jose State University | 30100 | 41000 | 0.2656 | 27,902 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
119 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 30300 | 78100 | 0.6121 | 14,237 | 1363 | 0.6693 | |
120 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 30400 | 31100 | 0.0225 | 19,657 | 1214 | 0.8749 | |
121 | University of Toledo | 30800 | 42000 | 0.2658 | 11,013 | 1159 | 0.9202 | |
122 | Drew University | 30900 | 64400 | 0.5204 | 1,611 | 1226 | 0.6783 | |
123 | University of Rhode Island | 31000 | 46700 | 0.3362 | 14,296 | 1148 | 0.7216 | |
124 | Portland State University | 31100 | 43000 | 0.2757 | 15,675 | 1176 | 0.9091 | |
125 | University of Missouri-Kansas City | 31900 | 39200 | 0.1865 | 10,206 | 1190 | 0.7218 | |
126 | SUNY College at Plattsburgh | 32100 | 44800 | 0.2835 | 3,856 | 1169 | 0.7518 | |
127 | Gettysburg College | 32300 | 86500 | 0.6262 | 2,103 | 1337 | 0.389 | |
128 | University of Missouri-St Louis | 32500 | 37200 | 0.1253 | 11,927 | 1154 | 0.5716 | |
129 | University of Dayton | 32700 | 64100 | 0.4898 | 7,737 | 1284 | 0.6566 | |
130 | Ithaca College | 33600 | 72500 | 0.5365 | 4,084 | 1314 | 0.6901 | |
131 | George Washington University | 33700 | 81800 | 0.5882 | 11,677 | 1421 | 0.4709 | |
132 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 34100 | 73700 | 0.5371 | 1,521 | 1241 | 0.556 | |
133 | Gordon College | 34300 | 51300 | 0.3314 | 1,314 | 1256 | 0.8562 | |
134 | University of South Florida | 34700 | 34700 | 0 | 44,120 | 1239 | 0.4319 | |
135 | DePaul University | 34800 | 56200 | 0.3809 | 14,188 | 1218 | 0.7589 | |
136 | Tennessee Technological University | 35000 | 37100 | 0.058 | 8,838 | 1159 | 0.8316 | |
137 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 35400 | 42400 | 0.1651 | 31,112 | 1130 | 0.8129 | |
138 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35500 | 47300 | 0.2494 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
138 | Boise State University | 35500 | 48800 | 0.2725 | 24,030 | 1025 | 0.8721 | |
140 | Rhodes College | 35800 | 68500 | 0.478 | 1,793 | 1359 | 0.4968 | |
141 | Western Kentucky University | 36100 | 41900 | 0.1385 | 14,017 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
142 | University of the Pacific | 36500 | 72100 | 0.4939 | 3,210 | 1298 | 0.7132 | |
143 | DePauw University | 37200 | 70300 | 0.4704 | 1,912 | 1260 | 0.5719 | |
144 | University of Central Oklahoma | 37400 | 38500 | 0.0286 | 10,454 | 1095 | 0.8176 | |
145 | CUNY Queens College | 38300 | 38300 | 0 | 13,146 | 1146 | 0.6434 | |
146 | Saint Vincent College | 38600 | 60700 | 0.365 | 1,284 | 0 | 0.6173 | |
147 | University of Wyoming | 38700 | 43800 | 0.1176 | 8,045 | 1159 | 0.9688 | |
148 | Wayne State University | 39100 | 45500 | 0.1406 | 15,371 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
149 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 39500 | 53700 | 0.2644 | 23,920 | 1390 | 0.5973 | |
150 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,019 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
150 | Seton Hall University | 39700 | 67400 | 0.4108 | 6,146 | 1313 | 0.7326 | |
152 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 39900 | 56700 | 0.2964 | 32,499 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
153 | University of California-San Diego | 40000 | 61100 | 0.3455 | 34,808 | 1375 | 0.2677 | |
154 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | 40500 | 40500 | 0 | 3,988 | 1219 | 0.976 | |
155 | Manhattan University | 41200 | 71700 | 0.4252 | 2,928 | 1248 | 0.785 | |
156 | Hofstra University | 41500 | 74600 | 0.4435 | 6,578 | 1323 | 0.6808 | |
157 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 42000 | 52100 | 0.1939 | 49,382 | 1339 | 0.6057 | |
158 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 42200 | 55100 | 0.2343 | 43,729 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
158 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42200 | 54900 | 0.2315 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
160 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 42400 | 42400 | 0 | 14,019 | 1115 | 0.7781 | |
161 | University of Maryland-College Park | 42500 | 52900 | 0.1966 | 30,994 | 1456 | 0.448 | |
162 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 43200 | 46200 | 0.0661 | 41,678 | 1327 | 0.4979 | |
163 | University of California-Riverside | 43300 | 66400 | 0.3478 | 21,954 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
164 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 44900 | 57100 | 0.2131 | 23,351 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
165 | Duquesne University | 45300 | 70500 | 0.3568 | 5,371 | 1269 | 0.8356 | |
166 | High Point University | 45900 | 70500 | 0.349 | 5,006 | 1209 | 0.7683 | |
167 | University of San Diego | 46100 | 85500 | 0.4608 | 5,851 | 1298 | 0.5238 | |
168 | Bryant University | 46300 | 73800 | 0.3727 | 3,200 | 1265 | 0.6546 | |
169 | Michigan State University | 47200 | 56200 | 0.1601 | 41,943 | 1223 | 0.848 | |
169 | University of Delaware | 47200 | 53200 | 0.1127 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
171 | Spelman College | 47400 | 49600 | 0.0435 | 2,712 | 1218 | 0.2487 | |
172 | University at Albany | 48100 | 48700 | 0.0123 | 12,658 | 1245 | 0.6909 | |
173 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 48200 | 85700 | 0.4374 | 5,743 | 1438 | 0.6343 | |
174 | Drexel University | 48700 | 82600 | 0.4103 | 12,896 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
175 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 49500 | 57200 | 0.1355 | 42,178 | 1338 | 0.7975 | |
176 | Providence College | 49700 | 85000 | 0.4154 | 4,556 | 1222 | 0.5089 | |
177 | University of St Thomas | 50200 | 70300 | 0.2861 | 6,044 | 1270 | 0.9125 | |
178 | Washington State University | 50500 | 53900 | 0.0623 | 14,346 | 1139 | 0.8797 | |
179 | University of Utah | 51500 | 53700 | 0.0401 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
180 | University of San Francisco | 53300 | 83200 | 0.3592 | 5,321 | 1292 | 0.6171 | |
181 | University of California-Irvine | 54800 | 64800 | 0.1543 | 29,799 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
182 | Fordham University | 55700 | 94600 | 0.4114 | 10,307 | 1415 | 0.5628 | |
183 | University of California-Santa Cruz | 56000 | 66500 | 0.1579 | 16,946 | 1281 | 0.6557 | |
184 | Miami University-Oxford | 56100 | 56100 | 0 | 16,816 | 1299 | 0.754 | |
185 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 56800 | 58900 | 0.0366 | 26,500 | 1183 | 0.8857 | |
186 | University of Oregon | 59300 | 68900 | 0.1401 | 20,509 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
187 | University of California-Davis | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 31,082 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
188 | Loyola Marymount University | 65000 | 94300 | 0.3106 | 7,273 | 1353 | 0.4508 | |
189 | Gonzaga University | 73200 | 73200 | 0 | 5,247 | 1303 | 0.8169 | |
190 | University of California-Berkeley | 74600 | 75500 | 0.0119 | 32,429 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
191 | The Catholic University of America | 82500 | 82500 | 0 | 3,167 | 1204 | 0.8278 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.