by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Real Estate is the 200th most popular major in the country with 6,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 72 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 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 analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 16 diplomas 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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s. Roosevelt University is a small school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 6 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s real estate students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 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 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Real Estate Major in Illinois for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Chicago landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 0 masters’s real estate degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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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