2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Illinois

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value General Business Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.

With 55,749 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, general business/commerce is the 9th most popular major in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 1,741 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general business/commerce programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general business/commerce 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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Best Value General Business Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

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

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Illinois

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$61,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Business Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 16 degrees to qualified doctorate’s general business students in 2019-2020.

UChicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Business/Commerce Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UChicago are $61,548.

Read full report on General Business/Commerce at UChicago

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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.

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