2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment 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 Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Educational Assessment is the 217th most popular major in the country with 1,863 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $50,220 and had an average of $33,307 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 59 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,300 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in educational assessment. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great educational assessment programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the educational assessment program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois.

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in Illinois

#1

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$27,036 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$66,915 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois list. University of Illinois at Chicago is a large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 17 masters’s assessment degrees in 2019-2020.

UIC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Educational Assessment Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Chicago are $27,036, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UIC Educational Assessment Report

#2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #2 spot on the list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s assessment degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Educational Assessment Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Educational Assessment Report

#3

Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Illinois

#3 in overall quality

$11,086 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Illinois University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois. Located in Dekalb, Illinois, this fairly large public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s assessment students in 2019-2020.

NIU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Educational Assessment Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northern Illinois University are $11,086, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Northern Illinois University Educational Assessment Report

#4

National Louis University

Chicago, Illinois

#4 in overall quality

$12,096 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Assessment Schools for a Master’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, National Louis University landed the #4 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s assessment degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

NLU also made our “Best Educational Assessment Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at National Louis University are $12,096, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Educational Assessment at NLU

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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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