2022 Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 52,394 finance students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country.

Across Illinois, there were 1,966 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent finance 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 finance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois doctor’s degree finance students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance in Illinois

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois list. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s finance degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Northwestern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Finance Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern University are $56,567, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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