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Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Illinois State University has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Illinois State University stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students. Illinois State University is ranked #237 in the USA as per Shiksha Popularity Rankings 2025.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Ranking stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, Illinois State University ranks #1401, which is stable in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #1401 in 2024. Illinois State University also ranks #209 in US News 'National University' category 2024. As compared to the last year, Illinois State University witnessed an improving trend in its US News ranking which stood at #219 in 2023.
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As per the Illinois State University subject ranking 2024, many of the university courses are ranked among the top in the world. US News has ranked the Illinois State University at #244 for UG Business. ARWU has also ranked courses offered by Illinois State University as top programs, namely Law, etc.
In addition to the global ranking bodies, Shiksha has also ranked Illinois State University streams, namely Business & Management Studies, Nursing, and Law at #261, #131, #188. Due to the availability of multiple rankings online which can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad, Shiksha Study Abroad launched Shiksha Popularity Rankings. With its launch, students are no longer required to check multiple ranking details to know about the performance of a particular university.
Read on to know more details about Illinois State University courses and subject rankings in the below article.

Illinois StateUS News & World Report Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Global Universities | 1535 | 1807 | – / – |
National University | 219 | 209 | 220 |
UG Business | 190 | 244 | 222 |

Illinois StateQS Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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World University | 1201 | 1401 | 1401 |

Illinois StateARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2022
Ranked by | 2022 |
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Law | 201 |
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Student Forum
Answered 2 days ago
The list of the popular programs at Illinois State University along with the percentage of degree awarded are given below:
Bachelors Degree | % | Masters Degree | % |
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Elementary Education & Teaching | 6.23% | General Health & Physical Education | 9.12% |
General Marketing & Marketing Management | 5.52% | General Business Administration & Management | 7.48% |
Registered Nursing | 4.64% | Industrial Technology | 5.17% |
General Psychology | 4.31% | Accounting | 4.63% |
General Finance | 3.79% | Audiology & Speech – Language Pathology | 4.49% |
Criminal Justice- Safety Studies | 3.79% | Dietetics | 4.35% |
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Contributor-Level 8
Answered 2 days ago
Housing options along with their rates at ISU are given below:
Residence | Type | Annual rate for 2025-26 |
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- | Triple Room | USD 5,514 (INR 4,77,300) |
- | Double Room | USD 6,486 (INR 5,61,400) |
- | Quad Room | USD 6,486 (INR 5,61,400) |
- | Single Room | USD 8,632 (INR 7,47,200) |
Haynie at Tri-Towers, Hewett-Manchester, Manchester | Double Room in Suite | USD 8,762 (INR 7,58,400) |
Wright Hall at Tri-Towers | Single Room in Suite | USD 10,056 (INR 8,70,400) |
Watterson Towers | Super Single Room in Suite | USD 11,094 (INR 9,60,300) |
1 USD = 86.56
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Contributor-Level 8
Answered 5 months ago
The annual tuition fees for international UG and PG courses at Illinois State University are given as follows:
Course level | Annual Tuition Fee in INR |
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UG | INR 20.34 L - INR 38.46 L |
PG | INR 6.36 L - INR 28.51 L |
The annual tuition and hostel fees for some of the top courses at Illinois State are given as follows:
Course | Tuition | Hostel |
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MBA/PGDM | INR 14.19 L - INR 17.61 L | INR 8.54 L - INR 9.32 L |
BE/ 9.22 L - INR 25.15 L | INR 8.54 L - INR 9.32 L | |
BE/ BTech | INR 20.34 L - INR 23.67 L | INR 8.54 L - INR 11.75 L |
MA | INR 12.11 L - INR 25.36 L | INR 8.65 L - INR 9.32 L |
PG Certificate | INR 6.36 L - INR 25.43 L | INR 8.65 L - INR 9.32 L |
Answered 5 months ago
Illinois State University offers more than 165 undergraduate, 90+ postgraduate and 10 doctoral degree programs for international students every year. Some of the popular majors at the university are given as follows:
- Business and Management
- Marketing
- Education
- Health professions and related support se
Answered 8 months ago
Illinois State University is better than the University of Illinois in terms of acceptance rate, tuition fees. However, here is the table of comparison for both the universities:
Name of The University | Ranking | Acceptance rate | Annual fees |
Illinois State University | #1201-1400 in QS World University Rankings | 92% | INR 28 L-19.8 L - 24.3 L (UG) INR 17.3 L ( PG) |
University of Illinois | #317 QS World University Rankings | 78% | INR 19.8 L - 24.3 L (UG) INR 21.6 L - 29.4 L (PG) |
(A comparison of the Annual fee was on the BBA course for UG and MBA for PG however, if students are looking for more co
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