2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Illinois for Students from United Arab Emirates

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Value Colleges for Emirati Students in Illinois ranking is part of that endeavor.

After analyzing 2 schools in Illinois, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Emirati students in Illinois. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall value.

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Top Value Colleges in Illinois for Students from United Arab Emirates

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

$30,370 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

10.4% International Students

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Chicago to be the best affordable school for Emirati students in Illinois in this year’s ranking. University of Illinois at Chicago is a large public school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 5,247 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 10.4% are international. Students from as far away as India, China, and Iran come to UIC to study. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at UIC runs, on average, about $30,370. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $28,468 per year.

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DePaul University
Chicago, IL

$42,012 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

5.1% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. DePaul is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 3,335 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 5.1% are international. Students studying at DePaul come from such countries as China, India, and Saudi Arabia. International students at DePaul can expect to pay, on average, about $42,012 a year to attend the school. Graduate students pay around $18,341 a year in average tuition and fees.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.