Dentistry is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #119 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for dentistry students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 303 degrees in dentistry to qualified students.
Your choice of dentistry school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Dentistry School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Dentistry Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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The schools below may not offer all types of dentistry degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Midwestern University - Downers Grove if you want to pursue a degree in dentistry. Midwestern University - Downers Grove is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Downers Grove.
There were roughly 129 dentistry students who graduated with this degree at Midwestern University - Downers Grove in the most recent data year.
University of Illinois at Chicago is a great option for students pursuing a degree in dentistry. Located in the city of Chicago, UIC is a public university with a fairly large student population.
There were roughly 119 dentistry students who graduated with this degree at UIC in the most recent year we have data available.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in dentistry. SIUE is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Edwardsville.
There were about 55 dentistry students who graduated with this degree at SIUE in the most recent data year.
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Notes and References
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).
Your choice of dentistry school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Dentistry School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
