unitid 145600 · Chicago, IL · public 4-year · city (large)
University of Illinois Chicago
Public university in Chicago, Illinois, US
- founded
- 1983
- enrollment 2023
- 36,794
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- uic.edu/
- motto
- “Teach, research, serve, care.”
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. wikipedia rev 1359989595 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
77%
39th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
22,170
90th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
49%
undergrads on Pell grants
86th pctl among public 4-years
completion
62%
finish within 150% time
80th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$27,521
78th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$10,974
after aid, aided students
37th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$68,740
after entry, Title IV students
89th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$16,704
34th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $7,529 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k39%
- 30-48k21%
- 48-75k18%
- 75-110k11%
- 110k+11%
- Median family income
- $33,726
- First-generation students
- 44%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $14,338
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.1× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology, General. | 465 | $66,924 | $18,000 |
| Psychology, General. | 375 | $54,233 | $17,500 |
| Computer Science. | 337 | $116,325 | $19,087 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 302 | $77,460 | $17,625 |
| Law. | 284 | — | — |
| Medicine. | 280 | $161,284 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 270 | $85,957 | $20,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 249 | $132,305 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 230 | — | — |
| Public Health. | 228 | $90,212 | — |
| Social Work. | 220 | $62,020 | — |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections. | 215 | $58,587 | $15,875 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 2,315 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (925) · basketball player (371) · university teacher (169) · mathematician (47) · politician (47) · writer (42) · academic (26) · physician (22)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Polykarp Kusch Physics 1955
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Polykarp Kusch
70 wikis · Public domain
Justin Hartley
35 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Carol Moseley Braun
34 wikis · Public domain
Chuy García
33 wikis · Public domain
Janina Gavankar
31 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Alaa Al Aswany
31 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Nnedi Okorafor
29 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jay DeMerit
26 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Michael Gross
26 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Adrian Smith
25 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gertrude Abercrombie
20 wikis · Public domain
Nancy Cartwright
20 wikis · No restrictions
Bobby Rush
20 wikis · Public domain
William A. Dembski
19 wikis · CC BY 2.5
Also recorded: Mike Hagerty.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359989595), CC BY-SA 4.0.