2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science is the 93rd most popular major in the country with 18,901 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,036 and had an average of $19,885 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 824 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,418 and $26,330 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical/medical laboratory science. That schools that top this list have a program in clinical/medical laboratory science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Illinois”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in Illinois

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Rush University
Chicago, Illinois

$58,420 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Rush University landed the #1 spot on the list. Rush University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 16 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Rush University Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Report

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Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in Illinois. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s clinical laboratory science students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at Roosevelt

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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.

Credits

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