2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Islamic Studies is the 1116th most popular major in the country with 50 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Illinois, there were 3 Islamic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 Islamic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in Islamic studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Islamic studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in Illinois”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Islamic Studies in Illinois

1

American Islamic College
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Islamic College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in Illinois list. American Islamic College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 1 bachelors’s Islamic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Islamic Studies at American Islamic College

2

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #2 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s Islamic studies degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Islamic Studies at DePaul

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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