by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Real Estate is the 155th most popular major in the country with 6,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, real estate graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $60,568 and had an average of $21,484 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 72 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $92,303 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in real estate. To top this list, a school must have a successful real estate program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree real estate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified masters’s real estate students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Roosevelt University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. Roosevelt University is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s real estate degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Chicago. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s. UIC is a public institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s. Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s real estate degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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