Illinois Tuition Subsidy
For fiscal year 2020, the General Assembly and the Governor authorized the aggregate amount of $1.17 billion to be appropriated from the General Revenue Fund and the Education Assistance Fund for operation of the State's public universities. For fiscal year 2020, each resident undergraduate full-time public university student received an average tuition subsidy of $3,997 from the State of Illinois, which was applied to offset the full cost of instruction.