The main focus area for this major is Athletic Training. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Allied Health Professions is a major offered under the health professions program of study at Northern Illinois University. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in allied health, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at NIU was ranked #416 on College Factual's Best Schools for allied health list. It is also ranked #20 in Illinois.
Here are some of the other rankings for NIU.
Part-time undergraduates at NIU paid an average of $348 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $9,466 | $9,466 |
Fees | $4,926 | $4,926 |
Books and Supplies | $1,300 | $1,300 |
On Campus Room and Board | $10,880 | $10,880 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,870 | $2,870 |
Learn more about NIU tuition and fees.
NIU does not offer an online option for its allied health bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the NIU Online Learning page.
About 50.0% of the students who received their Bachelor’s in allied health in 2019-2020 were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 72.2%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in allied health at NIU in 2019-2020, 45.0% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 30%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 6 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 11 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Allied Health Professions students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Athletic Training | 20 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to allied health professions.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Communication Sciences | 34 |
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 21 |
Health/Medical Prep Programs | 157 |
Mental & Social Health Services | 17 |
Public Health | 56 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.