by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Criminology Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 11,039 people earned their degree in criminology, making the major the 80th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, criminology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,568 and had an average of $24,453 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 243 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,318 and $26,809 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Criminology Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in criminology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Criminology Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Criminology Major in Illinois for a Master’s”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Criminology Major in Illinois for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Carbondale, Illinois, and it awarded 4 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Southern Illinois University Carbondale Criminology Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adler University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Criminology Major in Illinois for a Master’s. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s criminology degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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