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Real costs by region · Midwest · families earning $48,000–$75,000

25 Midwest colleges under $10,000 a year — if you earn $48,000–$75,000.

Across 274 Midwest colleges, families earning $48,000–$75,000 paid between $226 and $46,708 a year. The 25 cheapest are all under $10,000 — and 6 of them are private.

School	Type	Admit	Sticker / yr	This band paidPaid
University of Chicago	Private	4%	$90,360	$226
Indiana University-Kokomo	Public	86%	$11,837	$2,375
University of Michigan-Flint	Public	70%	$20,915	$3,752
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Public	16%	$34,654	$4,895
College of the Ozarks	Private	12%	$33,734	$5,022
Indiana University-Northwest	Public	73%	$13,989	$5,159
Washington University in St Louis	Private	12%	$88,488	$5,578
Michigan Technological University	Public	92%	$34,152	$6,187
Oakland University	Public	88%	$25,182	$6,711
Purdue University Northwest	Public	72%	$15,571	$7,026
Indiana University-Southeast	Public	84%	$16,411	$7,046
Indiana University-East	Public	67%	$16,954	$7,100
University of Minnesota-Crookston	Public	88%	$26,068	$7,587
Ferris State University	Public	91%	$27,048	$7,638
Northwestern University	Private	8%	$91,250	$7,898
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Public	42%	$33,642	$7,982
University of Michigan-Dearborn	Public	56%	$24,040	$7,997
Andrews University	Private	82%	$45,218	$8,024
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Public	45%	$28,679	$8,134
Indiana University-South Bend	Public	84%	$17,364	$8,195
Central State University	Public	99%	$21,929	$8,773
Indiana State University	Public	81%	$24,535	$9,317
Purdue University-Main Campus	Public	50%	$24,591	$9,438
University of Illinois Springfield	Public	86%	$25,521	$9,520
Grinnell College	Private	15%	$83,440	$9,669

"Paid" is the average net price reported to the U.S. Department of Education for aided families at $48,000–$75,000 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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