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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 | Northeastern University Professional Programs | 4800 | 53000 | 0.9091 | 2,525 | 0 | 0 | |
2 | Washington and Lee University | 6700 | 87100 | 0.9232 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
3 | Amherst College | 6900 | 95600 | 0.9277 | 1,881 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
4 | Wellesley College | 7000 | 90900 | 0.9233 | 2,405 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
5 | Trinity College | 7600 | 91500 | 0.917 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
6 | Pomona College | 7900 | 88500 | 0.9107 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
7 | Haverford College | 8300 | 97300 | 0.9147 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
8 | Hamilton College | 8700 | 88400 | 0.9017 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
8 | Smith College | 8700 | 92700 | 0.9057 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
10 | Grinnell College | 8800 | 91400 | 0.9039 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
11 | Colgate University | 9200 | 91600 | 0.8991 | 3,149 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
11 | Davidson College | 9200 | 89900 | 0.8973 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
13 | St Olaf College | 9400 | 75600 | 0.8754 | 3,027 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
14 | Vassar College | 9600 | 91500 | 0.8949 | 2,456 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
15 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 9700 | 94100 | 0.8972 | 9,007 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
15 | Swarthmore College | 9700 | 88900 | 0.8909 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
17 | Bates College | 10000 | 91800 | 0.8909 | 1,684 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
17 | University of Pennsylvania | 10000 | 93000 | 0.8926 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
19 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 10100 | 34400 | 0.7055 | 36,970 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
20 | Pitzer College | 10300 | 89700 | 0.885 | 1,158 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
21 | Lafayette College | 10700 | 85800 | 0.8758 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
22 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11000 | 27200 | 0.5963 | 32,499 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
23 | Middlebury College | 11800 | 89800 | 0.8684 | 2,751 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
24 | Northern Illinois University | 11900 | 29000 | 0.5885 | 11,339 | 1070 | 0.6979 | |
25 | Brigham Young University | 12300 | 29000 | 0.5755 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
26 | Duke University | 13000 | 93500 | 0.8613 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
27 | Northeastern State University | 13100 | 20800 | 0.3696 | 4,900 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
28 | University of North Alabama | 13200 | 28200 | 0.5322 | 8,076 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
29 | Bowdoin College | 13400 | 89900 | 0.8512 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
30 | Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville | 13700 | 41100 | 0.6673 | 8,975 | 1045 | 0.9721 | |
31 | Carleton College | 14000 | 74000 | 0.8113 | 2,127 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
32 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 14200 | 28100 | 0.4946 | 8,526 | 1054 | 0.8688 | |
33 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
34 | Albion College | 14900 | 72600 | 0.7946 | 1,270 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
35 | Northeastern University | 15000 | 89900 | 0.8335 | 22,649 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
36 | New York University | 15200 | 91800 | 0.8342 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
37 | Trinity University | 15600 | 64800 | 0.7594 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
38 | Denison University | 16700 | 69300 | 0.7594 | 2,405 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
39 | Macalester College | 17500 | 88200 | 0.802 | 2,022 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
40 | Barnard College | 17600 | 93200 | 0.8112 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
40 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 17600 | 17700 | 0.0057 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
42 | Union College | 17700 | 91000 | 0.8055 | 2,063 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
43 | College of Coastal Georgia | 18400 | 32900 | 0.4413 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
44 | Kansas State University | 19000 | 31400 | 0.395 | 15,649 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
45 | Lee University | 19100 | 37100 | 0.4846 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
46 | Loyola University New Orleans | 19400 | 71100 | 0.7275 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
47 | Niagara University | 20200 | 57400 | 0.6478 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
48 | Murray State University | 20500 | 25100 | 0.1814 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
49 | Cottey College | 21100 | 37300 | 0.4351 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
49 | Whitman College | 21100 | 85500 | 0.753 | 1,555 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
51 | University of Central Missouri | 21300 | 33200 | 0.3569 | 7,343 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
52 | Canisius University | 21500 | 53200 | 0.5955 | 1,707 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
53 | Sterling College | 21800 | 53600 | 0.5931 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
54 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 22000 | 26500 | 0.1701 | 4,213 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
55 | Luther College | 22300 | 70900 | 0.6849 | 1,341 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
56 | University of Rochester | 22900 | 93100 | 0.7542 | 6,554 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
57 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 23200 | 71600 | 0.6762 | 3,105 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
58 | Earlham College | 23900 | 75800 | 0.6843 | 649 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
58 | Wilson College | 23900 | 43300 | 0.4472 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
60 | Occidental College | 24200 | 87900 | 0.7246 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
61 | University of Kansas | 25000 | 37600 | 0.3347 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
62 | Scripps College | 25100 | 91600 | 0.7257 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
63 | Lake Forest College | 25200 | 76700 | 0.6712 | 1,813 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
64 | Westminster University | 25600 | 59500 | 0.5694 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
65 | Pennsylvania Western University | 26000 | 35600 | 0.27 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
66 | St. Francis College | 26500 | 39400 | 0.3278 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
66 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 26500 | 83600 | 0.6833 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
68 | University of North Georgia | 26800 | 35500 | 0.245 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
69 | Creighton University | 27000 | 56600 | 0.523 | 4,616 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
69 | Southern Nazarene University | 27000 | 42900 | 0.371 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
71 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27100 | 61400 | 0.5586 | 1,831 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
72 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 27200 | 40300 | 0.3249 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
73 | The College of Wooster | 27700 | 79000 | 0.6497 | 1,736 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
74 | Knox College | 28200 | 61000 | 0.5384 | 1,134 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
74 | University of Utah | 28200 | 32000 | 0.1197 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
76 | Regis University | 28400 | 67200 | 0.577 | 2,701 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
77 | Montclair State University | 29100 | 36300 | 0.1985 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
78 | Gannon University | 29800 | 45300 | 0.3422 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
79 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 29900 | 31100 | 0.0385 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
80 | Agnes Scott College | 30500 | 69000 | 0.5581 | 839 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
81 | University of North Florida | 31200 | 37900 | 0.1768 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
81 | University of Oregon | 31200 | 38600 | 0.1913 | 20,509 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
83 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 31400 | 34700 | 0.095 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
84 | LeTourneau University | 33600 | 54600 | 0.3845 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
85 | University of Nevada-Reno | 35000 | 35000 | 0 | 18,487 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
86 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35200 | 47300 | 0.2557 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
87 | Western Kentucky University | 36000 | 41900 | 0.1409 | 14,017 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
88 | New York Institute of Technology | 38500 | 78600 | 0.5095 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
89 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,019 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
90 | Oglethorpe University | 41200 | 68600 | 0.3986 | 1,278 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
91 | University of California-Riverside | 42900 | 66400 | 0.3539 | 21,954 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
92 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43500 | 66400 | 0.344 | 3,663 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
93 | Georgia College & State University | 44900 | 52400 | 0.1431 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
94 | University of Delaware | 47000 | 53200 | 0.117 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
95 | University of California-Merced | 47600 | 52300 | 0.0898 | 8,161 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
96 | Drexel University | 48100 | 82600 | 0.4175 | 12,896 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
97 | Sacred Heart University | 52800 | 75200 | 0.2979 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
98 | University of California-Irvine | 54500 | 64800 | 0.1589 | 29,799 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
99 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 58200 | 61100 | 0.0463 | 48,857 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
100 | University of California-Davis | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 31,082 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
101 | University of California-Berkeley | 74600 | 75500 | 0.0119 | 32,429 | 1407 | 0.1104 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.