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University of Illinois Chicago

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  1. Families earning under $30k paid $7,529 a year after grants and aid, against a published cost of $27,521.

  2. Students who received federal aid earned a median $68,740 ten years after entering, the 89th percentile among public 4-years.

  3. 62% of students finish within 150% of normal time.

Founded
1983
Enrollment, 2023
36,794
Website
uic.edu
Motto
“Teach, research, serve, care.”
Campus of University of Illinois Chicago

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The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

From the Wikipedia article “University of Illinois Chicago”, revision 1359989595, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

What it costs

The published sticker cost is $27,521 a year; after grants, families who received aid paid between $7,529 and $25,047 a year depending on income at University of Illinois Chicago.

Statement of cost · University of Illinois Chicago

Family income (per year)
Sticker costPublished yearly cost of attendance, all students
$27,521
What families earning under $30k paidYearly net price after grants, for students receiving federal aid
$7,529
Average net price, all incomesAided students, all family incomes
$10,974
In-state tuition & feesLatest reported, 2024
$14,338

Each figure is reported separately; none is computed from another.

Net price by family income

Pick an income bracket above; the marked point follows. Dollars are what aided families paid each year after grants.

Yearly net price by family income, in dollars

under $30k: $7,529; $30–48k: $8,119; $48–75k: $10,921; $75–110k: $16,185; over $110k: $25,047. Shaded band: middle half of public 4-years, from $8,778 to $16,425; dotted line at the median, $12,780.
  • Shaded: the middle half of public 4-years (all incomes), $8,778 to $16,425. Dotted line: the median, $12,780.
Table of the same numbers
Average yearly net price by family income bracket
Family incomePaid per year
Under $30k$7,529
$30k–$48k$8,119
$48k–$75k$10,921
$75k–$110k$16,185
Over $110k$25,047

College Scorecard, 2023–24 aid cohort (students who received federal aid)

What graduates earn and owe

Ten years after entry, the median federally aided student here earns $68,740; the median graduate who borrowed owes $16,704.

Statement, continued

Earnings, 6 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
$53,218
Earnings, 8 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
$61,779
Median earnings 10 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
89th percentile among public 4-years
$68,740
Median debt, graduatesStudents who finished and borrowed federal loans.
34th percentile among public 4-years
$16,704
Median debt, all who borrowedEveryone who borrowed, whether or not they finished.
$13,657

Earnings and debt come from federal aid records, so students who never received federal aid are not counted.

Earnings after entry

The shaded band is the middle half of public 4-years at 10 years: $42,655 to $60,720.

6 yrs after entry: $53,218; 8 yrs after entry: $61,779; 10 yrs after entry: $68,740. Median graduate debt: $16,704. Shaded band: middle half of public 4-years at 10 years, from $42,655 to $60,720; dotted line at the median, $50,178.
  • Shaded: middle half of public 4-years, 10 years out ($42,655 to $60,720); dotted line is the median.
  • Dashed: median graduate debt, $16,704.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Hollow marks are rungs with no reported value, not zero.

Table of the same numbers
Earnings after entry and graduate debt
MeasureDollars
Median earnings, 6 yrs after entry$53,218
Median earnings, 8 yrs after entry$61,779
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry$68,740
Median graduate debt$16,704

College Scorecard, federal tax and aid records

What programs pay

Median earnings five years after completing, by field of study. Small programs are privacy-suppressed and shown as not reported, never zero.

What programs pay at University of Illinois Chicago
ProgramCredentialGraduatesEarnings, 5 yrsMedian debt
Biology, GeneralBachelor's Degree465$66,924$18,000
Psychology, GeneralBachelor's Degree375$54,233$17,500
Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree337$116,325$19,087
Finance and Financial Management ServicesBachelor's Degree302$77,460$17,625
LawFirst Professional Degree284not reportednot reported
MedicineFirst Professional Degree280$161,284not reported
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingBachelor's Degree270$85,957$20,500
Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree249$132,305not reported
Management Sciences and Quantitative MethodsMaster's Degree230not reportednot reported
Public HealthMaster's Degree228$90,212not reported
Social WorkMaster's Degree220$62,020not reported
Criminal Justice and CorrectionsBachelor's Degree215$58,587$15,875
Show all 24 programs
Remaining programs
ProgramCredentialGraduatesEarnings, 5 yrsMedian debt
MarketingBachelor's Degree206$66,987$18,750
Computer ScienceMaster's Degree179not reportednot reported
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, GeneralBachelor's Degree174not reported$21,500
Mechanical EngineeringBachelor's Degree168$88,275$21,500
Accounting and Related ServicesBachelor's Degree167$77,917$18,750
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationFirst Professional Degree160$143,571not reported
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/FitnessBachelor's Degree145$62,018$16,750
Computer Systems AnalysisMaster's Degree135not reportednot reported
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral SciencesGraduate/Professional Certificate28$221,983not reported
Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral SciencesMaster's Degree30$241,068not reported
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingFirst Professional Degree124not reportednot reported
Health and Medical Administrative ServicesMaster's Degree108$120,651not reported

Source: College Scorecard field-of-study data.

Who goes here

University of Illinois Chicago: 22,170 undergraduates; 49% of students receive Pell grants; 77% of applicants are admitted.

Admission rate

77%

39th percentile among public 4-years

Undergraduates

22,170

90th percentile among public 4-years

Pell share

49%

of undergraduates receive Pell grants

86th percentile among public 4-years

Completion

62%

finish within 150% of normal time

80th percentile among public 4-years

First-generation

44%

parents did not attend college

Median family income

$33,726

47th percentile among public 4-years

Students by family income

Share of students in each family-income bracket, for students who received federal aid.

  • Under $30k39%
  • $30k–$48k21%
  • $48k–$75k18%
  • $75k–$110k11%
  • Over $110k11%
Show as a table
Students by family income
Family incomeShare of students
Under $30k39%
$30k–$48k21%
$48k–$75k18%
$75k–$110k11%
Over $110k11%

Who Wikipedia remembers

Wikidata records 2,315 people who studied at University of Illinois Chicago, most often in science & academia (61%). That is the archive's memory, not a census.

What the recorded alumni are remembered for

Share of recorded people by field, in a fixed order so schools compare.

Fields of the people the archive recorded for this school, in a fixed order: science & academia 61% (1,172 people); medicine 2.9% (55 people); law 0.9% (18 people); politics & gov 2.6% (50 people); business 1.1% (22 people); engineering & tech 1.7% (32 people); writing & journalism 3.7% (70 people); film & stage 1.6% (31 people); music 0.7% (13 people); visual arts 3.1% (60 people); sports 20% (382 people); religion 0.3% (5 people); military 0.2% (4 people). These are shares of people recorded in Wikidata, the archive's memory, not a census of alumni.
Table of the same numbers
Fields of the people the archive recorded for this school (the archive's memory, not a census)
FieldPeople recordedShare
science & academia1,17261.2%
medicine552.9%
law180.9%
politics & gov502.6%
business221.1%
engineering & tech321.7%
writing & journalism703.7%
film & stage311.6%
music130.7%
visual arts603.1%
sports38220.0%
religion50.3%
military40.2%

Source: Wikidata, via the archive's memory (not a census).

most recorded occupationsresearcher (925) · basketball player (371) · university teacher (169) · mathematician (47) · politician (47) · writer (42) · academic (26) · physician (22)

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

Counts reflect who the archive records, not a census.

Share of women among recorded alumni, from 50% for the 1900s to 38% for the 2000s. Decades with fewer than 5 recorded people are not drawn, and 5 decades are marked not reported for women. The line breaks at every decade not drawn.

Counts only people the archive records with a gender. Hollow marks are decades with no women reported or fewer than 5 recorded, not zero.

Table of the same numbers
Recorded alumni by birth decade
BornWomenMenShare women
1850snot reported1not reported
1860snot reported2not reported
1870snot reported1not reported
1880s11not reported
1890snot reported2not reported
1900s3350%
1910snot reported7not reported
1920s4833%
1930s1137%
1940s235330%
1950s325238%
1960s103224%
1970s203139%
1980s125618%
1990s105017%
2000s91538%

Source: Wikidata, via the archive's memory (not a census).

Wikipedia attention, by month

Wikipedia attention

monthly views

Monthly Wikipedia article views from 2015-07 to 2026-06; peak 12,886 in 2024-01.
Table of the same numbers
Wikipedia article views by month
MonthViews
2026-065,031
2026-057,506
2026-046,545
2026-038,563
2026-026,181
2026-016,533
2025-126,503
2025-117,420
2025-108,635
2025-097,642
2025-087,614
2025-076,685
2025-066,399
2025-057,928
2025-047,822
2025-039,425
2025-028,561
2025-019,602
2024-129,404
2024-1110,229
2024-109,696
2024-099,426
2024-089,314
2024-078,192
2024-067,959
2024-0510,114
2024-0410,588
2024-0312,227
2024-0211,061
2024-0112,886
2023-1210,218
2023-119,660
2023-109,934
2023-0910,160
2023-0811,155
2023-078,849
2023-068,483
2023-059,898
2023-049,830
2023-0311,124
2023-028,810
2023-019,936
2022-129,461
2022-119,570
2022-109,661
2022-099,809
2022-0810,407
2022-078,343
2022-067,511
2022-058,705
2022-048,674
2022-039,815
2022-028,826
2022-019,606
2021-127,757
2021-118,306
2021-108,035
2021-097,951
2021-087,452
2021-0769
2021-0646
2021-0548
2021-0446
2021-0344
2021-0238
2021-0132
2020-1231
2020-1137
2020-1057
2020-0930
2020-0841
2020-0738
2020-0630
2020-0536
2020-0472
2020-0354
2020-0255
2020-0165
2019-1270
2019-1169
2019-1058
2019-09182
2019-0889
2019-0756
2019-0646
2019-0533
2019-0446
2019-0356
2019-0255
2019-0166
2018-1267
2018-1146
2018-1064
2018-0951
2018-0849
2018-0758
2018-0652
2018-0541
2018-0455
2018-0373
2018-0256
2018-0155
2017-1246
2017-1182
2017-1062
2017-0971
2017-0845
2017-0749
2017-0650
2017-0528
2017-0435
2017-0350
2017-0234
2017-0153
2016-1235
2016-1143
2016-1047
2016-0963
2016-0842
2016-0732
2016-0630
2016-0544
2016-0439
2016-0370
2016-0247
2016-0137
2015-1258
2015-1149
2015-1063
2015-0973
2015-08104
2015-0776

Source: Wikimedia pageviews.

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Polykarp Kusch Physics 1955

The portrait wall

Ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Show all 14 portraits

Also recorded: Mike Hagerty.

Similar schools

These are the nearest neighbors in the same sector. The list is not an ordering.

Sources & caveats

Figures come from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. Built 2026-07-17.

not reported
Not reported: suppressed for privacy or never collected. It is not zero, and nothing has been filled in.
Percentiles
A percentile compares this school with others in its own sector (for example, public 4-year schools). It describes position, not quality.
Earnings
Earnings cover students who received federal (Title IV) aid, measured from the year they entered. Students who never received federal aid are not included.
Provenance notes
  • 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.

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