2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Food Science is the 283rd most popular major in the country with 1,815 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 185 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the food science 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois doctor’s degree food sciences students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s food sciences students in 2019-2020.

UIUC also made our “Best Food Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083.

Read more about Food Science at UIUC

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science (With Aid)

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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