Champaign, IL · Public · Every figure is for a student starting in fall 2027. We work each one out again whenever we update the site.
How to pay for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
What a year costs here, what brings it down, and what a SmartTuition plan could save a family like yours.
Paying for four years here
Four years here, after grants
$58,835
A SmartTuition plan could save a family like this about $5,700.
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester, using your own numbers.
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A family of four with good credit and $500 a month for college. How we worked these out ↓
A year at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
| Full price, in state | $36,656 |
| Full price, out of state | $60,012 |
| After grants, at your income | $13,026 |
At this income, 3 of Illinois's other 38 colleges cost less after grants, and 35 cost more. See them all →
What can bring it down
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's promise. Illinois Commitment: tuition and campus fees, after other aid, for Illinois residents with a family income of $75,000 or less, from fall 2025. The conditions ↓
Pay less for college
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester.
At University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, our scenarios for Illinois households with good parent credit show a SmartTuition plan saving a median of about $8,600 over four years. How we worked this out ↓
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Illinois Commitment: tuition and campus fees, after other aid, for Illinois residents with a family income of $75,000 or less, from fall 2025
Household income up to $75,000. Covers tuition, fees.
- For an Illinois resident and parents who graduated from an Illinois high school and are under 24. The student is admitted as a new freshman or transfer student and files the FAFSA by March 15. Family assets must be $75,000 or less. It pays tuition and campus fees left after other grants for up to four years. It does not pay housing, food, books, course fees, summer or winter classes or study abroad.
“If you’re an Illinois resident who was admitted as a new freshman or new transfer student for fall 2025 or a subsequent semester and your family makes $75,000 or less and has $75,000 or less in family assets, you may be eligible for Illinois Commitment. Eligible students will receive a financial aid package that provides scholarship and grant funding to cover the full cost of tuition and campus fees not covered by other federal, state, institutional and private awards including the Federal Pell Grant and the State of Illinois MAP Grant.”
How we worked these out
The family
A family of four with good parent credit and $500 a month to put toward college, and the savings you pick. In state, the grants are what University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reports families at that income got, on average. Your own will differ, and a family with no aid pays close to the full price. Out of state, there are no grants: the price is before any scholarship from the college.
What a SmartTuition plan saves
The difference, over four years, between a SmartTuition plan and the standard approach: savings first, then loans for the rest. It counts loan interest and the federal tax credit. For a family that lives in Illinois, it also counts Illinois' tax deduction for money you put through its 529 plan.
The $8,600 in the “Pay less for college” box near the top of this page is the median saving in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's own scenarios. Each scenario is a household that lives in Illinois, with an income from $45,000 to $200,000 and savings of none, $40,000 or $100,000 in a 529. We price University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at the aid it reports for that income.
Every scenario has parents with good credit and $500 a month toward college. The card above uses the same two. A scenario where the parents would borrow more than $65,000 is left out.
The prices by income
- They describe students who got aid.
- “Over $110,000” has no upper limit, so it averages families just over $110,000 with far wealthier ones. A family at $115,000 should expect to pay less than it shows.
- Each range is reported on its own, so the prices do not always rise with income.
Where the prices come from
Where the prices come from: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's own 2026-27 tuition, fees, housing, food and books, from its website, carried forward to 2027 at 3.0% a year. The grants are the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard (2025-26 figures), carried forward the same way. Each price after grants is the cost less those grants. The out-of-state figure uses the published out-of-state tuition instead. The average price after grants counts the students who get federal aid. Your own figure will be different.
SmartTuition.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Aid policies change; check current terms with the college's aid office.
Nearby at your income
- University of Chicago$10,871 a year
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale$12,372 a year
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$13,026 a year
- University of Illinois Springfield$13,447 a year
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville$13,665 a year
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