2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

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Health Sciences & Services is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 31,648 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,571 and had an average of $24,129 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 554 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,850 and $24,138 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health sciences and services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree health science students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Illinois

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$61,516 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 37 degrees to qualified masters’s health science students in 2019-2020.

Northwestern not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern are $56,567.

Full Northwestern Health Sciences & Services Report

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.

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