Outcomes
What it pays
Former students earn a median $81,054 ten years after enrolling, more than at 92% of colleges; 86% graduate within six years. Four years of net price is about 1.4 years of that salary.
Earnings
Earnings climb with time
Staying and finishing
Retention
come back for year two
Graduation
graduate within six years
National median graduation rate: 59%
What graduates owe
$19.5K
According to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's most recent Common Data Set, 38% of its Class of 2025 graduates (7,523 students) borrowed from any source: federal, institutional, state, or private, averaging $22,040 among those who did.
Counts students who started here as first-time students and earned a bachelor's; the federal median counts federal loans only, including students who left without a degree.
Everyone who starts here, 8 years later
Students who entered in fall 2016, including and part-time students. The graduation rate counts only first-time, full-time students and treats a transfer out as not finishing.
86 of 100 students who start here earn a degree or certificate here within 8 years; 11 more are enrolled at another college. (9,323 students)
All entering students, by whether they had a Pell Grant.
74 of 100 finish within 4 years, 85 within 6, and 86 within 8.
| Earned a credential within | 4 yrs | 6 yrs | 8 yrs |
|---|---|---|---|
| All students | 74% | 85% | 86% |
| Started in college here | 72% | 85% | 86% |
| Transferred in | 83% | 87% | 87% |
Transfer students' clock starts when they arrive here, not when they first started college.
National median: 60% of all entering students earn a credential at the college they started at within 8 years.
Do lower-income students finish?
Of 100 Pell Grant recipients who entered in fall 2019, 67 finished within 4 years and 81 within 6. First-time, full-time students who finished within 6 years; entered fall 2019.
- Pell Grant recipients2,160 students
81% · 67% within 4 years · 8 points below students with neither
- Subsidized loan, no Pell Grant970 students
86% · 76% within 4 years · 2 points below students with neither
- Neither Pell nor subsidized loan4,525 students
89% · 78% within 4 years · comparison group
Within 4 years
By race and ethnicity
First-time, full-time students who finished within 6 years, from the College Scorecard's most recent release. Groups under 30 students aren't shown.
- White3,147 students
88% · 2 points above all students
- Asian1,580 students
89% · 2 points above all students
- Hispanic/Latino1,086 students
76% · 10 points below all students
- Black473 students
70% · 17 points below all students
- Two or more races285 students
86% · the same as all students
- International936 students
87% · 1 point above all students
- American Indian/Alaska Native3 students
Not shown: under 30 students
- Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander8 students
Not shown: under 30 students
Cost vs. earnings
The 300 most-applied-to colleges plus University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Top-left is lower cost and higher earnings.
↑ Median earnings 10 years after entry (higher = more)
Sources:College Scorecard, most recent release;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Common Data Set 2025–26, Entered fall 2024;IPEDS Outcome Measures survey, Students entering fall 2016;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Common Data Set 2025–26, Entered fall 2019;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey, 2023–24;IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey, 2023–24;University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Common Data Set 2025–26, Class of 2025;IPEDS Graduation Rates survey (Pell Grant and subsidized loan recipients), Entered fall 2018About the data(retrieved 2026-10-12)