Illinois Average Net Price Ranking

The Cheapest Colleges in Illinois by Average Net Price for 2023

Cheapest Colleges in Illinois by Average Net Price

The lowest 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. Telshe Yeshiva Chicago leads the list with a $6,326 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 2019/2020 academic year.

Illinois' Cheapest Colleges by Average Net Price
College Net Price Discount
#1 Telshe Yeshiva Chicago

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$6,326 78%
#2 Chicago State University

Chicago, Public Not For Profit

$8,637 60%
#3 University of Illinois at Springfield

Springfield, Public Not For Profit

$11,628 51%
#4 University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Public Not For Profit

$12,614 55%
#5 American InterContinental University Online

Hoffman Estates, Private For Profit

$13,278 31%
#6 Saint Xavier University

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$13,326 72%
#7 Saint Augustine College

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$13,389 39%
#8 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Champaign, Public Not For Profit

$13,517 54%
#9 Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Public Not For Profit

$13,551 42%
#10 Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Public Not For Profit

$14,397 42%
#11 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Edwardsville, Public Not For Profit

$14,506 37%
#12 National Louis University

Chicago, Private Not For Profit

$14,769 41%
#13 Northeastern Illinois University

Chicago, Public Not For Profit

$14,831 41%
#14 Hebrew Theological College

Skokie, Private Not For Profit

$14,914 49%
#15 Western Illinois University

Macomb, Public Not For Profit

$15,361 39%
#16 Blackburn College

Carlinville, Private Not For Profit

$15,603 55%
#17 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, Public Not For Profit

$15,638 42%
#18 Judson University

Elgin, Private Not For Profit

$16,039 62%
#19 Quincy University

Quincy, Private Not For Profit

$16,599 61%
#20 University of St Francis

Joliet, Private Not For Profit

$16,761 64%