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Colleges with guaranteed or frozen tuition in Illinois

49 colleges in Illinois show unusually predictable published tuition. 2 publish a named guarantee program; the rest have simply not raised published tuition in recent federal data, and nothing stops them from raising it again.

Published guarantee programs (2)

University of Illinois Chicago
Truth-in-Tuition guarantee · Same Illinois cohort guarantee: your rate is locked the year you enroll.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Truth-in-Tuition guarantee · Illinois law guarantees an entering cohort a fixed tuition rate for four continuous years.

Detected freezes (47)

Flat published tuition in recent federal data. No published guarantee stands behind these; a school can raise its rate at any time.

Colleges in Illinois with flat published tuition and their recent growth rate.
School	Sector	Recent growth / yr
American Islamic College	private	0.2%
Benedictine University	private	2.3%
Black Hawk College	public	1.6%
Chamberlain University-Illinois	private	1.7%
City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College	public	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College	public	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College	public	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College	public	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College	public	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College	public	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College	public	6.6%
College of DuPage	public	-0.6%
Elgin Community College	public	-2.7%
Eureka College	private	3.9%
Fox College	private	0.4%
Frontier Community College	public	1.4%
Generations College	private	-0.1%
Illinois Central College	public	1.6%
John Wood Community College	public	2.0%
Judson University	private	1.3%
Kankakee Community College	public	6.3%
Kaskaskia College	public	1.5%
Kishwaukee College	public	0.2%
Lake Land College	public	1.2%
Lewis and Clark Community College	public	2.1%
Lincoln Trail College	public	1.4%
Methodist College	private	-0.9%
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Skokie	private	2.9%
Morton College	public	1.9%
Northwestern College	private	0.9%
Oakton Community College	public	2.7%
Olney Central College	public	1.4%
Pacific College of Health and Science	private	-1.4%
Parkland College	public	0.1%
Prairie State College	public	2.3%
Rush University	private	-0.6%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing	private	2.2%
South Suburban College	public	1.0%
Southwestern Illinois College	public	-5.3%
St. John's College-Department of Nursing	private	3.8%
Stautzenberger College-Rockford Career College	private	–
Taylor Business Institute	private	-1.3%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago	private	2.5%
University of Illinois Springfield	public	1.2%
Wabash Valley College	public	1.4%
William Rainey Harper College	public	0.8%
Worsham College of Mortuary Science	private	2.0%

From federal IPEDS data through 2023. See the methodology.