Find College Cost

Financial Aid Calculators

You can afford college if you plan well ahead. These tools can help:

• FinAid's custom calculators -- "help you figure out how much school will cost, how much you need to save and how much aid you'll need."
   
• MSN Tuition Savings Calculator -- Enter your Current Fund, Rate of Return, Taxes, College Costs and get Results.

ISAC College Zone
This one-stop center helps Illinois students and their parents with "state and federal grants and scholarships, federal and alternative educational loans, and college savings and investment options".
-- From Illinois Student Assistance Commission 

Federal Student Aid
If you meet the income requirements, you can get help from the U.S. government for college tuition through grants and loans.

• Financial Aid Applications
• Review your federal loan information

Tuition At Local Universities

Compare the cost of attending a local university. As you expect, the tuition at state universities is lower for Illinois residents, since you are already subsidizing the cost through your local taxes.

• Bradley University -- Bradley U tuition
• Chicago State University -- CSU tuition
• Concordia University -- Undergraduate cost
• DePaul University -- DePaul tuition
• DeVry University -- DeVry cost by state
• Eastern Illinois University -- Can I afford EIU
• Governors State University -- GSU tuition
• Illinois Institute of Technology -- IIT Bursar Office
• Illinois State University -- ILSTU student accounts
• Illinois Wesleyan University -- IWU student accounts then select Tuiton & Fees
• Lewis University -- LewisU tuition
• Loyola University Chicago -- LUC tuition
• Northern Illinois University -- NIU tuition
• Northwestern University -- NU cost of attendance
• Roosevelt University -- RU tuition
• Southern Illinois University -- SIU tuition
• University of Chicago -- UofC tuition
• University of Illinois at Chicago -- UIC tuition
• University of Illinois at Springfield -- UIS tuition
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- UIUC tuition

For more universities and colleges, including community colleges, you can check:

1. City Colleges of Chicago
2. Illinois Community Colleges
3. 50states.com