by our College Data Analytics Team
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was awarded 413 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is accounting.
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College Factual ranked UIUC as #34 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UIUC held the #44 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
UIUC is also ranked #3 out of 85 schools in Illinois.
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The acceptance rate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a competitive 60%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 43% of students accepted to UIUC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 640 and 730. Math scores were between 680 and 780.
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At University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the student to faculty ratio is 21 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is 75%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 93% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at UIUC for first-time, full-time students is 70%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 33,683 undergraduates at UIUC with 32,107 being full-time and 1,576 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,858 | $8,036 | $11,505 | $22,400 | $27,285 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UIUC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UIUC, approximately 34% of students took out student loans averaging $6,428 a year. That adds up to $25,712 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at UIUC is 2.3%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for UIUC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 601 E John Street, Champaign, IL 61820-5711 |
| Phone: | 217-333-1000 |
| Website: | www.illinois.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/illinois.edu |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/Illinois_Alma |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Child Development & Psychology | 583 | $28,388 |
| Economics | 443 | $50,008 |
| Statistics | 396 | $63,699 |
| Accounting | 385 | $65,425 |
| Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences | 332 | $23,534 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 308 | $38,661 |
| Computer Science | 306 | $101,262 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 287 | $66,961 |
| Political Science & Government | 248 | $35,914 |
| Electrical Engineering | 238 | $74,981 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 47,297 students took at least one online class at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is a decrease from the 50,734 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 47,297 | 11,822 |
| 2019-2020 | 50,734 | 30,628 |
| 2018-2019 | 20,199 | 6,492 |
| 2017-2018 | 17,270 | 4,767 |
| 2016-2017 | 14,551 | 3,164 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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