CHICAGO, Ill. (WAND) -- Incoming undergraduate students will pay more next fall.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted Thursday to increase the base tuition rate for Illinois resident undergraduates enrolling in fall 2025 by 2.2% at the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Campus. It would go up 2% at the University of Illinois Springfield.
The board said the increases will help the universities meet rising costs driving by inflation. The increase comes after tuition freezes in seven of the previous 10 years.
The new tuition rates will only impact new undergraduates enrolling in 2025-26.
“These modest increases will allow our universities to balance critical operating needs and the excellence our students and their families count on with the affordability we are committed to providing,” U of I System President Tim Killeen said. “Our trustees have voted to hold tuition costs in check over most of the past decade, something that has a profound impact on the families of Illinois and the students they send to our universities.”
Under Thursday’s vote, new full-time, in-state undergraduates enrolling in the fall will pay base tuition of $12,992 per year in Urbana-Champaign, $11,424 in Chicago and $9,840 in Springfield.
Modest increases were also approved for nonresident students enrolling in the fall.
Trustees also approved increases in room and board costs: a 5% increase at Urbana-Champaign to $13,848 a year; a 5% increase in Chicago to $14,130 a year; and a 4.4% increase in Springfield to $11,866 a year.
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