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Published: Jul 08, 2016
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign_IL
Jason Lindsey—Courtesy of University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Overall rank: 22

  • Estimated price for 2016-17 without aid: $30,800
  • Estimated price for 2016-17 with average aid: $22,100
  • Average student debt: $20,950
  • Early career earnings: $56,800

Illinois’s flagship university is among the top 15 public schools on the National Science Foundation’s list of high research spenders, and its strongest academic programs include accounting, several types of engineering, and physics. Students also have access to the country’s second largest university library system (only Harvard’s is larger). Full profile.