2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Meteorology Major in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology is the 477th most popular major in the country with 804 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Illinois, there were 39 general atmospheric sciences and meteorology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 general atmospheric sciences and meteorology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Meteorology Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general atmospheric sciences and meteorology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general atmospheric sciences and meteorology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Meteorology Major in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree general meteorology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology in Illinois

1

Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Meteorology Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Illinois University landed the #1 spot on the list. Dekalb, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general meteorology degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Full NIU General Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology Report

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#3 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Meteorology Major in Illinois list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 18 bachelors’s general meteorology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology at UIUC

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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.