Illinois Average Net Price Ranking

The Most Expensive Colleges in Illinois by Average Net Price for 2023

Most Expensive Colleges in Illinois by Average Net Price

The highest net price colleges in Illinois are ranked by the average net price paid. Net price is the average cost paid as determined by tuition minus scholarship and grant financial aid and grant financial aid and may be a more accurate estimation of real life costs than published tuition. Discount from list price represents the effective percent discount from published costs that students averaged. Please note that net price varies on a student by student basis based on finanical situation and no financial aid is guaranteed. School of the Art Institute of Chicago leads the list with a $51,606 average annual net price paid in 2014-2015.

Net price data are reprinted from the U.S. Department of Education's IPEDS Survey and reflect reported costs for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Illinois' Most Expensive Colleges by Average Net Price
College Net Price Discount
#1 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$51,606 28%
#2 Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$37,731 41%
#3 University of Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$36,584 55%
#4 DePaul University

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$33,319 43%
#5 Illinois Wesleyan University

Bloomington, Private Not For Profit

$32,545 50%
#6 Kendall College

Chicago, Private For Profit

$30,324 7%
#7 American Academy of Art

Chicago, Private For Profit

$28,630 36%
#8 Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$28,568 38%
#9 Northwestern University

Evanston, Private Not For Profit

$28,344 65%
#10 Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$28,161 58%
#11 Wheaton College

Wheaton, Private Not For Profit

$27,474 48%
#12 Benedictine University

Lisle, Private Not For Profit

$27,061 41%
#13 Lake Forest College

Lake Forest, Private Not For Profit

$26,968 58%
#14 Chamberlain College of Nursing Illinois

Addison, Private For Profit

$26,412 22%
#15 North Central College

Naperville, Private Not For Profit

$26,053 53%
#16 Methodist College of Nursing

Peoria, Private Not For Profit

$25,955 29%
#17 Bradley University

Peoria, Private Not For Profit

$25,850 47%
#18 VanderCook College of Music

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$25,764 33%
#19 Pacific College of Oriental Medicine Chicago

Chicago, Private For Profit

$24,622 -11%
#20 Augustana College

Rock Island, Private Not For Profit

$24,233 59%