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2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

5 Ranked Colleges
295 Degrees Awarded
$25,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor's in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 4,751 people earned their degree in advertising, making the major the 138th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 307 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 295 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in advertising. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great advertising 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 advertising program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree advertising students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in Illinois

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. UIUC is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 245 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The yearly cost to attend UIUC is $15,880 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Advertising students.

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 student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.

Read full report on Advertising at UIUC

#2

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Bradley University landed the #2 spot on the list. Bradley is a medium-sized school located in Peoria, Illinois that handed out 16 bachelors’s advertising degrees in 2019-2020.

Bradley also made our “Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Bradley University is $25,634 for illinois bachelor’s degree advertising students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Bradley University Advertising Report

#3

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois list. Columbia College Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 bachelors’s advertising degrees to qualified students.

Columbia also took the #4 spot in our “Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $31,099 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Advertising students per year to attend Columbia.

Full Columbia Advertising Report

#4

North Park University

Chicago, Illinois
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Park University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s advertising students in 2019-2020.

North Park did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $19,170 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Advertising students per year to attend North Park.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Advertising at North Park University

#5

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola University Chicago. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois list. This fairly large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s advertising degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Loyola Chicago, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Advertising Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Loyola University Chicago is $35,407 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Advertising students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Advertising at Loyola University Chicago

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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