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unitid 145637 · Champaign, IL · public 4-year · city (small)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Public university in Illinois, US

founded
1867
enrollment 2023
62,417
predominant degree
Bachelor's
motto
“Learning and Labor”
Campus of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the founding campus and flagship institution of the University of Illinois System. With over 59,000 students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States. wikipedia rev 1363829957 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

42%

7th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

36,258

97th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

23%

undergrads on Pell grants

26th pctl among public 4-years

completion

85%

finish within 150% time

96th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$33,642

94th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$14,355

after aid, aided students

62nd pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$81,054

after entry, Title IV students

97th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$19,500

49th 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 $2,038 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

  • 0-30k
    24%
  • 30-48k
    14%
  • 48-75k
    not reported
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$62,485
First-generation students
25%
In-state tuition & fees
$16,004

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.2× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Business Administration, Management and Operations.1,735$140,412—
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.1,070——
Computer Science.840$201,739—
Information Science/Studies.601——
Research and Experimental Psychology.573—$20,050
Computer Engineering.396$136,097$20,500
Accounting and Related Services.352$96,827$20,500
Statistics.330$104,911$19,394
Finance and Financial Management Services.323$118,286$19,500
Economics.315$91,191$21,228
Computer Science.311$170,405$20,500
Communication and Media Studies.294$71,207$19,500

— 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 · 8,787 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 (2,219) · university teacher (1,028) · basketball player (609) · mathematician (289) · computer scientist (236) · politician (205) · writer (182) · academic (175)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Edward Adelbert Doisy Medicine 1943
  • Wendell Meredith Stanley Chemistry 1946
  • Vincent du Vigneaud Chemistry 1955
  • Polykarp Kusch Physics 1955
  • Robert W. Holley Medicine 1968
  • John Robert Schrieffer Physics 1972
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Medicine 1977
  • Hamilton Smith Medicine 1978
  • James Tobin Economics 1981
  • Edwin G. Krebs Medicine 1992
  • Phillip Sharp Medicine 1993
  • Jack Kilby Physics 2000
  • Omar M. Yaghi Chemistry 2025

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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 1363829957), CC BY-SA 4.0.