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Illinois: Almanac 2012

August 26, 2012

DEMOGRAPHICS
	State:	Nation:
Population:
State rank: 5	12,830,632	308,745,538
Age distribution:
Up to 4	6.5%	6.5%
5 to 14	13.6%	13.3%
15 to 19	7.2%	7.1%
20 to 24	6.9%	7.0%
25 to 44	27.3%	26.6%
45 to 64	26.1%	26.4%
65 and older	12.5%	13.0%

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DEMOGRAPHICS
	State:	Nation:
Population:
State rank: 5	12,830,632	308,745,538
Age distribution:
Up to 4	6.5%	6.5%
5 to 14	13.6%	13.3%
15 to 19	7.2%	7.1%
20 to 24	6.9%	7.0%
25 to 44	27.3%	26.6%
45 to 64	26.1%	26.4%
65 and older	12.5%	13.0%
Racial and ethnic distribution:
American Indian	0.3%	0.9%
Asian	4.6%	4.8%
Black	14.5%	12.6%
Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.2%
White	71.5%	72.4%
More than one race	2.3%	2.9%
Hispanic (may be any race)	15.8%	16.3%
Other	6.7%	6.2%
Educational attainment of adults (highest level):
8th grade or less	6.1%	6.2%
Some high school, no diploma	7.7%	8.7%
High-school diploma	27.9%	29.0%
Some college, no degree	20.8%	20.6%
Associate degree	7.3%	7.5%
Bachelor’s degree	18.9%	17.6%
Master’s degree	8.2%	7.2%
Doctoral degree	1.1%	1.2%
Professional degree	2.1%	2.0%
Proportion who speak a language other than English at home:
	21.7%	20.0%
Per capita personal income:
State rank: 15	$44,140	$41,663
Poverty rate:
	13.8%	15.3%
New public-high-school graduates:
Estimated for 2012-13	135,760	2,912,480
Projected change from 2007-8 to 2020-21	-0.8%	-0.6%
New GED diploma recipients:
	15,787	434,126

FINANCE
	State:	Nation:
Average tuition and fees:
At public 4-year institutions	$10,562	$7,136
At public 2-year institutions	$2,947	$2,439
At private 4-year institutions	$24,070	$22,771
State funds for higher-education operating expenses:
	$3,585,962,200	$72,543,813,412
One-year change:	12.1%	-7.5%
State spending on student aid:
Need-based grants	$404,563,000	$6,543,322,000
Non-need-based grants	$3,857,000	$2,698,392,000
Nongrant aid	$6,651,000	$1,813,221,000
Total	$415,071,000	$11,054,934,000
Total spending on research and development by colleges and universities:
	$2,253,068,000	$61,234,893,000
One-year change	1.1%	6.9%
Sources of research financing:
Federal government	64.2%	61.2%
State and local governments	2.5%	6.3%
Industry	3.6%	5.2%
Nonprofit	5.3%	6.1%
Institution itself	22.8%	19.4%
Other	1.7%	1.7%
Share of research spending for specific fields:
Engineering	11.6%	15.3%
Environmental sciences	1.1%	4.9%
Life sciences	61.6%	57.0%
Math and computer sciences	6.8%	3.7%
Physical sciences	8.5%	7.6%
Psychology	2.0%	1.8%
Social sciences	2.3%	3.3%
Other sciences	1.3%	1.9%
Fields other than science and engineering	4.7%	4.7%
Largest endowment:
Northwestern University	$7,182,745,000
Top fund raisers:
University of Chicago	$246,748,231
Northwestern University	$228,622,579
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	$126,987,428

THE PROFESSION
	State:	Nation:
Average pay of full-time professors
Public doctoral institutions:
Professor	$113,523	$112,647
Associate professor	$76,519	$78,804
Assistant professor	$69,443	$67,236
All	$80,110	$81,647
Public master’s institutions:
Professor	$85,475	$87,677
Associate professor	$68,240	$70,215
Assistant professor	$60,729	$59,511
All	$62,656	$68,178
Private nonprofit doctoral institutions:
Professor	$145,436	$133,973
Associate professor	$86,633	$86,108
Assistant professor	$76,270	$72,242
All	$99,783	$95,028
Private nonprofit master’s institutions:
Professor	$77,640	$82,002
Associate professor	$66,515	$66,466
Assistant professor	$56,418	$55,352
All	$65,777	$65,735
Other 4-year institutions:
Public	n/a	$61,039
Private nonprofit	$58,681	$65,697
2-year colleges:
Public	$67,902	$62,301
Private nonprofit	$39,497	$46,347

STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
	State:	Nation:
Enrollment:
Undergraduate	748,965	18,078,672
Graduate and professional	157,924	2,937,454
At public 4-year institutions	205,015	7,924,771
At public 2-year institutions	380,500	7,218,038
At private 4-year institutions, nonprofit	226,400	3,822,260
At private 2-year institutions, nonprofit	1,082	32,660
At private 4-year institutions, for-profit	83,234	1,588,220
At private 2-year institutions, for-profit	10,658	430,177
Total	906,889	21,016,126
Public institutions	65%	72%
4-year institutions	57%	63%
2-year institutions	43%	37%
Degrees awarded:
Associate	38,263	849,452
Bachelor’s	70,847	1,650,014
Master’s	41,548	693,025
Doctorate	7,625	158,558
Residence of new students:
State: State residents made up 85% of all freshmen enrolled in Illinois in the fall of 2010 who had graduated from high school in the previous year; 71% of all Illinois residents who were freshmen attended college in their home state.
Nation: 81% of all freshmen in the fall of 2010 who had graduated from high school in the previous year attended colleges in their home states.
Graduation rates at public 4-year institutions:
All	62.5%	56.0%
Men	60.4%	53.0%
Women	64.3%	58.5%
American Indian	60.0%	37.0%
Asian	68.0%	66.3%
Black	38.8%	38.3%
Hispanic	45.3%	47.8%
White	67.9%	58.9%

ACCESS AND EQUITY
	State:	Nation:
Enrollment highlights:
American Indian	2,892	196,374
Asian	49,648	1,218,118
Black	142,143	3,038,751
Pacific Islander	2,031	64,046
Hispanic	119,125	2,741,448
White	549,135	12,722,549
Foreign	30,183	709,565
Two or more races	11,732	325,275
Total	906,889	21,016,126
Women	56.5%	57.0%
Minority	36.1%	36.1%
Underrepresented minority	29.1%	28.4%
Foreign	3.3%	3.4%
Full-time	58.7%	62.2%
Test scores:
State: Students averaged 20.9 on the ACT, which was taken by an estimated 100% of Illinois’s high-school seniors.
Nation: Students averaged 21.1 on the ACT and 1500 on the SAT.

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
	State:	Nation:
Number of institutions:
Public 4-year institutions	12	678
Public 2-year institutions	48	978
Private 4-year institutions, nonprofit	80	1,543
Private 2-year institutions, nonprofit	4	87
Private 4-year institutions, for-profit	23	649
Private 2-year institutions, for-profit	14	664
Total	181	4,599
Institutions censured or sanctioned by the AAUP:
None
Institutions under NCAA sanctions:
None