Quad

Key differences on Outcomes

  1. 1

    UIUC grads earn $5.9K more ten years out than UT Austin's ($81,054 vs. $75,121)

    Median earnings, 10 yrs
  2. 2

    UIUC graduates 1 pts more of its students than UT Austin (86% vs. 85%)

    Graduation rate

Outcomes

Outcomes

Earnings and finishing

Median earnings, 10 yrs
UIUC$81.1K
UT Austin$75.1K
Graduation rate
UIUC86%
UT Austin85%
Retention rate
UIUC95%
UT Austin97%

Borrowing

Median debt
UIUC$19.5K
UT Austin$20.5K
Undergrads with a federal loan
UIUC27%
UT Austin27%
Median debt, Pell Grant recipients
UIUC$16.2K
UT Austin$19.3K

Eight-year outcomes

Credential within 4 years, all students
UIUC74%
UT Austin71%
Credential within 8 years, all students
UIUC86%
UT Austin85%
Enrolled at another college, 8 years on
UIUC11%
UT Austin7%

Graduation by group

Graduated in 6 years, Pell Grant recipients
UIUC81%
UT Austin84%
Graduated in 6 years, neither Pell nor subsidized loan
UIUC89%
UT Austin91%
Pell graduation gap
UIUC8 pts lower
UT Austin7 pts lower

Graduated in 6 years, by race and ethnicity

GroupUIUCUT Austin
White88%90%
Asian89%93%
Hispanic/Latino76%84%
Black70%83%
Two or more races86%87%
International87%88%

On-time progress, from the colleges' Common Data Sets

Finished withinUIUCUT Austin
4 years: Pell recipients67%Not published
4 years: neither Pell nor subsidized loan78%Not published
4 years: all first-time full-time74%Not published
5 years: Pell recipients79%Not published
5 years: neither Pell nor subsidized loan87%Not published
5 years: all first-time full-time84%Not published

All outcome numbers in the table

Sources:College Scorecard, most recent release;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Common Data Set 2025–26, Entered fall 2024;College Scorecard, 2023–24;IPEDS Outcome Measures survey, Students entering fall 2016;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Common Data Set 2025–26, Entered fall 2019;The University of Texas at Austin Common Data Set 2025–26, Entered fall 2024;IPEDS Graduation Rates survey (Pell Grant and subsidized loan recipients), Entered fall 2018About the data(retrieved 2026-10-12)

Figures are the newest each college has published; years can differ between colleges. Each value's ⓘ shows its source and year. Why