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Real costs by region · Midwest · families earning $30,000–$48,000

25 Midwest colleges under $7,000 a year — if you earn $30,000–$48,000.

Across 273 Midwest colleges, families earning $30,000–$48,000 paid between $331 and $39,845 a year. The 25 cheapest are all under $7,000 — and 5 of them are private.

School	Type	Admit	Sticker / yr	This band paidPaid
Indiana University-Northwest	Public	73%	$13,989	$331
University of Chicago	Private	4%	$90,360	$914
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Public	16%	$34,654	$1,878
Washington University in St Louis	Private	12%	$88,488	$1,928
University of Michigan-Flint	Public	70%	$20,915	$2,386
Purdue University Northwest	Public	72%	$15,571	$2,428
Michigan Technological University	Public	92%	$34,152	$3,373
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Public	45%	$28,679	$4,101
Ferris State University	Public	91%	$27,048	$4,315
Oakland University	Public	88%	$25,182	$4,560
Indiana University-South Bend	Public	84%	$17,364	$4,926
Indiana University-Southeast	Public	84%	$16,411	$4,978
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Public	42%	$33,642	$5,373
Indiana University-East	Public	67%	$16,954	$5,454
University of St Francis	Private	65%	$46,239	$5,584
Western Michigan University	Public	85%	$29,237	$5,734
Ohio State University-Main Campus	Public	61%	$30,305	$5,751
University of Illinois Springfield	Public	86%	$25,521	$5,915
Indiana University-Indianapolis	Public	76%	$23,316	$5,995
Northwestern University	Private	8%	$91,250	$6,099
College of the Ozarks	Private	12%	$33,734	$6,140
Purdue University-Main Campus	Public	50%	$24,591	$6,241
University of Michigan-Dearborn	Public	56%	$24,040	$6,284
University of Minnesota-Crookston	Public	88%	$26,068	$6,368
Indiana State University	Public	81%	$24,535	$6,571

"Paid" is the average net price reported to the U.S. Department of Education for aided families at $30,000–$48,000 household income — planning data, not an offer. Public colleges show in-state prices; out-of-state families typically pay more. Colleges enrolling fewer than 1,000 students are excluded, because federal price cells at very small schools are volatile enough to manufacture patterns that disappear at scale. A low price and a low admit rate are different things — the admit column is there so the two are never confused.

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