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CHICAGO — Within three years of getting their diplomas, more graduates from DeVry, East-West University and the Illinois Institute of Art default on their loans than from any other four-year schools in the city, the federal government says.

The highest monthly loan payments are made by students after they've studied at Columbia College ($302), DePaul ($283) and Loyola ($276).

Those comparisons and more are available through a new website launched by the White House. Chicago college students — and would-be students — can find loan default rates and average monthly loan payments, along with such other essentials as real-cost tuition and graduation rates.

The “college scorecard” will help students “get the most bang for your educational buck,” President Barack Obama said during his State of the Union address this week.

Critics say some data on the interactive site is a few years old, but the administration said the information helps empower families "to make smart investments in higher education."

The tuition listed is not the sticker price, but the cost an average undergraduate student pays after grants and scholarships are subtracted from the total cost of attending.

The graduation rate is the percentage of first-time, full-time students who received their bachelor’s degree within six years.

The default rate is the percentage of borrowers who defaulted on their federal student loans within three years of entering repayment.

The median borrowing number is what the student who borrows the average amount for that school will have to pay per month for 10 years after graduation.

Here are the details on Chicago four-year colleges and universities:

American Academy of Art

Tuition: $24,719

Change between 2007-09: -13.2 percent

Graduation rate: 44.3 percent

Loan default rate: 14.8 percent

Median borrowing: $258.25 per month

Argosy University - Chicago

Tuition: $21,059

Change from 2007-09: None

Graduation rate: NA

Loan default rate: 13.4 percent

Median borrowing: $106.10

Chicago State University

Tuition: $14,797

Change from 2007-09: +20.8 percent

Graduation rate: 21 percent

Loan default rate: 15.2 percent

Median borrowing: $215.78

Columbia College

Tuition: $27,934

Change from 2007-09: +5.9 percent

Graduation rate: 41 percent

Loan default rate: 11.4 percent

Median borrowing: $302.09 per month

DePaul University

Tuition: $24,205

Change from 2007-09: -1.8 percent

Graduation rate: 66.3 percent

Loan default rate: 4.4 percent

Median borrowing: $283.39

DeVry University

Tuition: $25,041

Change from 2007-09: +11.3 percent

Graduation rate: 33.1 percent

Loan default rate: 24.1 percent

Median borrowing: $227.28 per month

East-West University

Tuition: $24,859

Change from 2007-09: +15.9 percent

Graduation rate: 7.7 percent

Loan default rate: 21.8 percent

Median borrowing: $75.79

Harrington College of Design

Tuition: $24,463

Change from 2007-09: +1.9 percent

Graduation rate: 41 percent

Loan default rate: 12.2 percent

Median borrowing: $224.41

Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago

Tuition: $30,084

Change from 2007-09: +9.6 percent

Graduation rate: 30.8 percent

Loan default rate: 18.7 percent

Median borrowing: $227.30

Illinois Institute of Technology

Tuition: $19,456

Change from 2007-09: -2.5 percent

Graduation rate: 63.6 percent

Loan default rate: 4.6 percent

Median borrowing: $258.29

Intl. Academy of Design and Technology

Tuition: $21,110

Change from 2007-09: -11.6 percent

Graduation rate: 18.1 percent

Loan default rate: 28.6 percent

Median borrowing: $241.67

Loyola University

Tuition: $28,976

Change from 2007-09: +5.7 percent

Graduation rate: 69.6 percent

Loan default rate: 5.7 percent

Median borrowing: $276.19

Moody Bible Institute

Tuition: $13,378

Change from 2007-09: zero percent

Graduation rate: 67.2 percent

Loan default rate: Zero percent

Median borrowing: NA

National Louis University

Tuition: $11,965

Change from 2007-09: +43.5 percent

Graduation rate: 25.9 percent

Loan default rate: 6.9 percent

Median borrowing: $191.79

North Park University

Tuition: $19,535

Change from 2007-09: -11.2 percent

Graduation rate: 52 percent

Loan default rate: 10 percent

Median borrowing: $235.91

Northeastern Illinois University

Tuition: $13,373

Change from 2007-09: +14.3 percent

Graduation rate: 23.1 percent

Loan default rate: 10.1 percent

Median borrowing: $126.59

Northwestern University

Tuition: $27,113

Change from 2007-09: +3.6 percent

Graduation rate: 93.6 percent

Loan default rate: 1.8 percent

Median borrowing: $195.39

Robert Morris College - Chicago

Tuition: $18,157

Change from 2007-09: +18.6 percent

Graduation rate: 43.7 percent

Loan default rate: 8.3 percent

Median borrowing: $226.04

Roosevelt University

Tuition: $25,011

Change from 2007-09: +2.8 percent

Graduation rate: 46.5 percent

Loan default rate: 6 percent

Median borrowing: $212.19

St. Xavier University

Tuition: $16,027

Change from 2007-09: -1.5 percent

Graduation rate: 52.2 percent

Loan default rate: 8.4 percent

Median borrowing: $221.61

University of Chicago

Tuition: $29,924

Change from 2007-09: -10.2 percent

Graduation rate: 91.9 percent

Loan default rate: 2.3 percent

Median borrowing: $220.72

University of Illinois at Chicago

Tuition: $8,697

Change from 2007-09: +11.1 percent

Graduation rate: 54.5 percent

Loan default rate: 4.2 percent

Median borrowing: $195.64