2022 Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Museum Studies is the 262nd most popular major in the country with 859 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, museum studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,171 and had an average of $41,641 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 37 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in museum studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great museum studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the museum studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Museum Studies in Illinois

#1

Western Illinois University

Macomb, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$11,996 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$24,035 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois. Macomb, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s museum studies degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

WIU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WIU are $11,996, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Western Illinois University Museum Studies Report

#2

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$27,036 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in Illinois. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large public school awarded 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s museum studies students in 2019-2020.

UIC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UIC are $27,036.

Read more about Museum Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago

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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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