UIC Common Data Set 2025–26

Among Fall 2025 entering students who submitted each test, the middle half scored 1,030–1,300 on the SAT and 24–31 on the ACT. UIC reports SAT scores for 47% of the class and ACT scores for 4%.

The SAT profile therefore covers a much larger group than the ACT profile, and neither represents the whole entering class.

Read these scores alongside the GPA and class-rank profiles to see several aspects of enrolled students’ academic preparation. The separate testing-policy section explains what UIC asks of applicants in the current cycle; this historical score distribution cannot tell you whether submitting a particular score would improve your application.

UIC identifies course rigor, class rank and academic GPA as very important in its CDS response, with the application essay marked important. Standardized test scores and recommendations are marked considered.

The table distinguishes the school’s reported emphasis on the academic record from the other information it reviews.

Read these priorities alongside the enrolled-student profiles: GPA, rank and test results describe the students who enrolled, while the factor table describes UIC’s stated review criteria. These categories do not translate into a point system or a formula for admission.

Check the current requirements for your program and application cycle before deciding what to submit.

Among students with reported class rank, 88% were in the top half of their high-school class, 52% in the top quarter and 23% in the top tenth.

Rank was reported for 36% of the entering class, compared with GPA coverage of 98.61%. The rank widget therefore describes a smaller slice of the class than the GPA profile.

It adds context about standing within a high school, but it cannot tell you where the students without reported rank would fall.

UIC reports an average high-school GPA of 3.45, with GPA available for 98.61% of entering students. The distribution gives more context than the average alone: students are spread across several GPA bands, so 3.45 should not be read as a minimum required GPA.

You can also compare the separately reported profiles of students who submitted test scores and those who did not. These views describe the grades of students who enrolled in each group.

They do not include the corresponding applicant pools, so differences between the columns cannot establish an admissions advantage from submitting scores.

UIC reports 7,109 transfer applicants, 3,923 admitted transfer applicants and 2,450 enrolled transfers for Fall 2025. The three counts show how the applicant group narrows between applying, receiving an offer and enrolling.

They also give transfer students a separate point of reference from the first-year admission figures.

For your own application, the next step is to check the intended program’s transfer guide against your completed courses and credits. UIC’s current transfer guidance distinguishes required materials from recommendations.

The historical counts provide context for that route into UIC, but do not show how applicants with your particular coursework were evaluated.

UIC lists base tuition of $11,652 for Illinois residents and $28,352 for out-of-state students in 2026–27, with $3,294 in required fees reported separately. That puts base tuition and required fees at $14,946 for an Illinois resident and $31,646 for an out-of-state student, before housing and other expenses.

The program you choose can change that starting point: UIC reports that 67.70% of full-time undergraduates pay more than the listed base tuition and fees because charges vary by program. Use the base figures to orient your comparison, then check the rate for your intended program.

For students living on campus, UIC lists another $17,100 for food and housing. Its expense estimates also include $1,400 for books and supplies, $1,526 for transportation and $4,500 for other expenses.

A commuter's budget and an on-campus student's budget can therefore have different components even when their tuition rate is the same. The table separates published charges from estimated expenses so you can identify which figures apply to your housing arrangement and which need to be replaced with your own budget.

UIC's final 2024–25 aid figures show two different grant-recipient groups. Among full-time, first-time, first-year students, 2,923 received need-based scholarships or grants, averaging $18,699 per recipient.

Another measure covers 179 students without financial need who received institutional non-need-based scholarships or grants; their average was $6,007.

These figures show the size of reported awards within each group. They do not establish which award a prospective student will receive, and the older aid averages should not be subtracted from the 2026–27 published charges to produce a new net-price estimate.

Use the income-band chart for the historical after-aid comparison and your actual offer for the grants available to you.

UIC reports that 159 graduates used private student loans within an eligible cohort of 2,541 bachelor’s graduates who began at UIC as first-time students. The university reports that share as 6%. This describes the eligible cohort, not all UIC graduates or current students.

Among those private borrowers, mean cumulative private principal borrowed while attending UIC was $37,462. That is a borrower-only average, not an annual cost, a current balance or a median for everyone.

Keep it separate from the federal student and parent-loan figures; adding unlike averages and medians would not describe an observed family’s debt.

Parent loans also appear in UIC's aid records. For final 2024–25, the CDS reports $18.91 million of parent-loan awards used to meet financial need and $5.81 million outside that category.

These annual school-wide amounts show a funding source that would be missed by looking only at student loans.

They do not reveal a typical parent's balance: the table supplies neither a parent borrower count nor a per-parent average, and it does not identify the awards as exclusively Parent PLUS. Read these award totals alongside the separately labeled Parent PLUS balance and payment illustration, with each measure's population and period kept visible.

UIC reports that 83% of its Fall 2024 full-time, first-time bachelor’s cohort returned the following fall. For the earlier Fall 2019 entering cohort, 61.48% completed within six years; the Pell-recipient subgroup’s rate was 57.76%.

The Pell figure adds a view of completion among students who received that grant, within the same entering cohort as the overall graduation figure.

Read completion alongside graduate earnings when weighing an investment in college. Earnings among completers describe one part of the outcome; the graduation figures show the shares of the Fall 2019 cohort and its Pell subgroup that completed within six years.

The retention figure offers a more recent view of continued enrollment, but it does not forecast the newer cohort’s eventual graduation rate.

Business and marketing account for 17.74% of UIC’s reported bachelor’s degree distribution, followed by health professions at 14.56%. Computing accounts for 11.94%, biological and life sciences 10.13%, engineering 9.69% and psychology 8.86%.

These broad categories show a mix of business, health, technical and other fields rather than one dominant subject.

The CDS distribution covers degrees awarded from July 2024 through June 2025. It groups majors more broadly than the program explorer and uses a different reporting period.

Use it to understand the overall mix of fields, then return to the specific program records for earnings and degree counts; the category shares do not establish the outcomes of every program within them.

UIC reports 1,927 instructional faculty: 1,449 full-time and 478 part-time. Of the full-time group, 1,296 hold a doctorate or another terminal degree.

These institution-wide counts show faculty employment status and qualifications; they do not describe staffing within a particular major.

UIC’s separately defined student-to-faculty ratio is 19:1. Use that as an institution-wide comparison measure, then investigate the classes and faculty access in your intended program.

The ratio does not tell you how many students will sit in a particular lecture or how much individual contact a course provides.

UIC reports 24,260 undergraduates in Fall 2025, including 23,991 pursuing degrees. Among degree-seeking undergraduates, the largest reported racial or ethnic group is Hispanic/Latino, with 8,838 students, followed by White, non-Hispanic students at 5,294 and Asian, non-Hispanic students at 4,881.

The widget lets you explore every reported group using the same undergraduate population.

This adds a view of the student community alongside the Pell and first-generation measures elsewhere in the brief. Pell receipt, first-generation status and these enrollment categories describe different aspects of students’ backgrounds.

Read each measure with its own population and reporting year; the figures cannot be combined into a single breakdown.

UIC reports that 85.53% of degree-seeking undergraduates live off campus or commute. College-owned, operated or affiliated housing accommodates 26.49% of first-year students and 14.47% of undergraduates overall.

First-year students are therefore more likely to live in college housing than the undergraduate population as a whole, although most students in both groups live elsewhere.

When comparing UIC with another school, consider how each housing arrangement would affect your budget and travel to campus. Living off campus can mean renting nearby or commuting from farther away; the CDS combines those arrangements.

Compare the cost of the arrangement you would actually use, rather than assuming the published on-campus housing charge applies to everyone.