by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois” ranking.
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology is the 103rd most popular major in the country with 7,247 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ecology, evolution and systematics biology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,579 and had an average of $23,052 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 168 ecology, evolution and systematics biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 ecology, evolution and systematics biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in ecology, evolution and systematics biology. That schools that top this list have a program in ecology, evolution and systematics biology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The ecology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree ecology students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Governors State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois list. GSU is a small school located in University Park, Illinois that handed out 3 masters’s ecology degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois. Located in North Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s ecology students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s ecology degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ecology Major in Illinois. UIUC is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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