Illinois Academic Quality per Dollar Ranking

The Best Value Colleges in Illinois by Academic Quality per Dollar for 2023

Best Value Colleges in Illinois by Academic Quality per Dollar

These are the Illinois schools which appear on CollegeCalc's Best Value Colleges in America ranking and represent the colleges providing the finest education balanced against an affordable average net price. The best value in Illinois ranking goes to Northwestern University with a 96th percentile national academic rank for a comparatively affordable $28,344 average net price.

Academic Rating is a CollegeCalc rating of a college's overall academics and effectiveness. The score ranges from zero to one hundred, with fifty being the median for all eligible colleges. Dollar value is a measure of a school's academic rating compared with the average price paid by students. Colleges which are ranked "n/a" didn't report sufficient data to formulate a score. Learn more about our rating methodology.

All price data are reprinted from the U.S. Department of Education's 2021/2022 IPEDS Survey and reflect reported costs for the 2021/2022 academic year.

Illinois' Best Value Colleges by Academic Quality per Dollar
College Net Price Rating Value
#1 Northwestern University

Evanston, Private Not For Profit

$28,344 96 97
#2 University of Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$36,584 98 95
#3 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Champaign, Public Not For Profit

$13,517 79 94
#4 University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Public Not For Profit

$12,614 69 89
#5 Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$28,161 72 89
#6 Lake Forest College

Lake Forest, Private Not For Profit

$26,968 66 84
#7 Wheaton College

Wheaton, Private Not For Profit

$27,474 74 81
#8 Bradley University

Peoria, Private Not For Profit

$25,850 69 78
#9 Illinois Wesleyan University

Bloomington, Private Not For Profit

$32,545 74 77
#10 Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$37,731 70 44