2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,949 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Illinois, there were 36 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in teacher education.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in Illinois

1

Elmhurst University
Elmhurst, Illinois

#20 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Elmhurst University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s list. Elmhurst University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Elmhurst, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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%.

Full Elmhurst Teacher Education Report

2

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Teacher Education Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s. DePaul is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 4 bachelors’s teacher education degrees 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%.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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