2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jewish Studies in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Judaic Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking.

Jewish Studies is the 453rd most popular major in the country with 1,032 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 41 Jewish studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 Jewish studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality Jewish studies 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 Jewish studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Judaic Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Judaic Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jewish Studies in Illinois

#1

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$27,315 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Judaic Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 3 bachelors’s Judaic studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UChicago also made our “Best Jewish Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $27,315 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Judaic Studies students per year to attend UChicago.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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