2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Health Professions is the 100th most popular major in the country with 7,767 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,856 and had an average of $27,421 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 90 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,600 and $24,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other health professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other health professions 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 other health professions 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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The health professions school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$27,036 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k list. UIC is a large public school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 12 masters’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

UIC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIC are $27,036, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Other Health Professions at University of Illinois at Chicago

#2

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

$19,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s health professions degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago also made our “Best Other Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Loyola University Chicago are $19,154, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $0-$30k)

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.

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