by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Speech Pathology & Audiology is the 103rd most popular major in the country with 7,841 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 278 speech pathology and audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 91 speech pathology and audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in speech pathology and audiology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in speech pathology and audiology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Normal, Illinois, and it awarded 40 masters’s audiology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Speech Pathology & Audiology at Illinois State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. UIUC is a large public school situated in Champaign, Illinois. It awarded 27 masters’s audiology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. SIUE is a fairly large school located in Edwardsville, Illinois that handed out 21 masters’s audiology degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Audiology Major in Illinois for a Master’s. Northwestern University is located in Evanston, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s audiology degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Speech Pathology & Audiology at Northwestern University
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