2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate in Illinois” 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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

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

Top 4 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in Illinois

#1

Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Illinois

#3 in overall quality

$11,086 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois. Dekalb, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s health professions degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

NIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Other Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at NIU are $11,086, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at NIU

#2

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#3 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 #2 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois list. UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s health professions degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIC, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Other Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Chicago are $27,036, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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

#2

Rush University

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$37,207 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rush University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois list. Rush University is a small school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 6 doctorate’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Rush University also made our “Best Other Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rush University are $37,207, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Other Health Professions at Rush University

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s health professions students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwestern, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Health Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern University are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Northwestern Other Health Professions 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.

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