Alternative Medicine & Systems is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #96 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for alternative medicine & systems students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 52 master's degrees in alternative medicine & systems to qualified students.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on alternative medicine & systems students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other alternative medicine & systems students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt alternative medicine & systems students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized alternative medicine & systems related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for alternative medicine & systems students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Alternative Medicine & Systems Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Master's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Alternative Medicine & Systems in Illinois
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in alternative medicine & systems.
Top Illinois Schools for a Master's in Alternative Medicine
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in alternative medicine & systems needs to look into National University of Health Sciences. National College of Chiropractic is a fairly small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Lombard.
Soon after graduation, alternative medicine master's recipients usually earn an average of $27,313 at the beginning of their careers.
Pacific College of Health and Science is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a master's degree in alternative medicine & systems. Pacific College Chicago is a fairly small private for-profit college located in the large city of Chicago.
Students who graduate with their master's from the alternative medicine program state that they receive average early career income of $25,845.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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