2022 Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,742 people earned their degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine, making the major the 276th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 35 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great acupuncture and oriental medicine programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the acupuncture and oriental medicine program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Illinois

#1

Pacific College of Health and Science

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$12,719 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pacific College of Health and Science. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Pacific College Chicago also took the #1 spot in our “Best Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Pacific College of Health and Science are $12,719.

Read more about Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science

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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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