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College costs in Illinois

All 133 colleges in Illinois, 79 four-year and 54 two-year. Median published tuition and fees at the four-year schools is $27,811, rising about 2.7% a year, faster than the national median of 2.6%. 12 of the four-year schools are public. 16 show a tuition freeze or guarantee.

Four-year colleges (79)

Four-year colleges in Illinois, with published tuition and fees in dollars.
School	Sector	Tuition & fees	Growth / yr
Adler University	private	$16,740	n/a
American Academy of Art College	private	$39,510	3.0%
American Islamic College	private	$7,650	0.2%
Augustana College	private	$49,834	3.3%
Aurora University	private	$28,220	3.2%
Benedictine University	private	$32,546	2.3%
Blackburn College	private	$26,758	3.5%
Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences	private	$29,868	3.7%
Bradley University	private	$39,680	2.8%
Chamberlain University-Illinois	private	$20,604	1.7%
Chicago State University	public	$12,754	2.9%
Columbia College Chicago	private	$32,520	3.7%
Concordia University-Chicago	private	$36,258	2.6%
DePaul University	private	$48,975	2.7%
DeVry University-Illinois	private	$15,032	-1.4%
Dominican University	private	$37,694	2.7%
East-West University	private	$26,100	3.3%
Eastern Illinois University	public	$13,124	2.0%
Elmhurst University	private	$41,628	2.3%
Eureka College	private	$28,400	3.9%
Governors State University	public	$11,320	2.1%
Greenville University	private	$30,598	2.6%
Hebrew Theological College	private	$14,700	-2.9%
Illinois College	private	$37,470	2.8%
Illinois Institute of Technology	private	$55,048	2.3%
Illinois State University	public	$16,816	3.1%
Illinois Wesleyan University	private	$61,208	3.4%
Judson University	private	$30,910	1.3%
Knox College	private	$55,587	3.6%
Lake Forest College	private	$54,202	3.1%
Lakeview College of Nursing	private	$19,070	2.2%
Lewis University	private	$37,882	3.5%
Lincoln Christian University	private	$15,400	-0.5%
Lincoln College	private	$19,800	1.4%
Loyola University Chicago	private	$58,376	3.7%
McKendree University	private	$34,070	2.7%
Methodist College	private	$18,008	-0.9%
Midwest College of Oriental Medicine-Skokie	private	$18,666	2.9%
Millikin University	private	$43,570	4.4%
Monmouth College	private	$43,520	3.1%
Moody Bible Institute	private	$15,356	3.0%
National Louis University	private	$14,601	-0.8%
National University of Health Sciences	private	$22,450	4.3%
North Central College	private	$44,394	2.9%
North Park University	private	$35,325	4.1%
Northeastern Illinois University	public	$12,383	4.5%
Northern Illinois University	public	$13,725	-0.2%
Northwestern College	private	$18,475	0.9%
Northwestern University	private	$73,062	3.7%
Oak Point University	private	$24,440	0.0%
Olivet Nazarene University	private	$37,940	2.1%
Pacific College of Health and Science	private	$7,508	-1.4%
Principia College	private	$33,280	2.4%
Quincy University	private	$35,740	3.3%
Rasmussen University-Illinois	private	$15,768	4.3%
Rockford University	private	$37,000	3.3%
Roosevelt University	private	$20,280	-3.1%
Rush University	private	$30,957	-0.6%
Saint Anthony College of Nursing	private	$27,811	2.2%
Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing	private	$23,710	3.3%
Saint Xavier University	private	$36,840	2.3%
School of the Art Institute of Chicago	private	$52,604	2.5%
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale	public	$13,244	1.2%
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville	public	$12,025	3.2%
St. Augustine College	private	$13,288	3.7%
St. John's College-Department of Nursing	private	$25,466	3.8%
Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago	private	$15,000	2.5%
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Chicago	private	$20,844	n/a
Trinity Christian College	private	$20,325	-2.5%
Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences	private	$28,025	0.4%
Trinity International University-Illinois	private	$12,320	-8.5%
University of Chicago	private	$77,778	4.1%
University of Illinois Chicago	public	$16,720	1.2%
University of Illinois Springfield	public	$12,472	1.2%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	public	$18,434	0.7%
University of St Francis	private	$37,000	2.8%
VanderCook College of Music	private	$30,910	2.1%
Western Illinois University	public	$14,085	2.3%
Wheaton College	private	$49,266	3.7%

Two-year colleges (54)

Community and technical colleges, projected over two years rather than four.

Two-year colleges in Illinois, with published tuition and fees in dollars.
School	Sector	Tuition & fees	Growth / yr
Black Hawk College	public	$7,950	1.6%
Carl Sandburg College	public	$7,910	3.4%
City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College	public	$11,520	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College	public	$11,520	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College	public	$11,520	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College	public	$11,520	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College	public	$11,520	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College	public	$11,520	6.6%
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College	public	$11,520	6.6%
College of DuPage	public	$10,410	-0.6%
College of Lake County	public	$10,531	3.4%
Danville Area Community College	public	$9,200	4.2%
Elgin Community College	public	$7,140	-2.7%
Fox College	private	$15,720	0.4%
Frontier Community College	public	$10,270	1.4%
Generations College	private	$12,700	-0.1%
Heartland Community College	public	$10,440	2.9%
Highland Community College	public	$6,976	4.0%
Illinois Central College	public	$9,348	1.6%
Illinois Valley Community College	public	$13,835	4.0%
John A Logan College	public	$5,990	-3.3%
John Wood Community College	public	$9,000	2.0%
Joliet Junior College	public	$12,750	3.5%
Kankakee Community College	public	$13,320	6.3%
Kaskaskia College	public	$7,770	1.5%
Kishwaukee College	public	$9,390	0.2%
Lake Land College	public	$8,104	1.2%
Lewis and Clark Community College	public	$9,552	2.1%
Lincoln Land Community College	public	$6,960	3.2%
Lincoln Trail College	public	$10,270	1.4%
McHenry County College	public	$10,529	1.0%
Moraine Valley Community College	public	$8,502	-0.3%
Morrison Institute of Technology	private	$19,900	2.7%
Morton College	public	$8,980	1.9%
Oakton Community College	public	$10,446	2.7%
Olney Central College	public	$10,270	1.4%
Parkland College	public	$9,642	0.1%
Prairie State College	public	$9,342	2.3%
Rend Lake College	public	$7,800	6.0%
Richland Community College	public	$10,800	8.1%
Rock Valley College	public	$10,274	2.9%
Sauk Valley Community College	public	$11,580	2.8%
Shawnee Community College	public	$7,200	5.7%
South Suburban College	public	$11,033	1.0%
Southeastern Illinois College	public	$6,300	3.7%
Southwestern Illinois College	public	$6,390	-5.3%
Spoon River College	public	$11,460	3.2%
Stautzenberger College-Rockford Career College	private	$16,699	n/a
Taylor Business Institute	private	$12,000	-1.3%
Triton College	public	$11,790	3.2%
Wabash Valley College	public	$10,270	1.4%
Waubonsee Community College	public	$11,369	6.1%
William Rainey Harper College	public	$9,990	0.8%
Worsham College of Mortuary Science	private	$24,800	2.0%

Published rates before aid, from federal IPEDS data through 2023. Projections are estimates, not quotes. See the methodology.