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2022 Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
11 Degrees Awarded
$29,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor's in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,100 people earned their degree in bioinformatics, making the major the 446th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 86 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 bioinformatics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent bioinformatics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the bioinformatics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Bioinformatics Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioinformatics (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Bioinformatics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. Loyola University Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 11 bachelors’s bioinformatics degrees in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago also took the #1 spot in our “Best Bioinformatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Loyola Chicago is $29,440 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Bioinformatics at Loyola University Chicago

Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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