A degree in veterinary medicine is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #153 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
There was only one school in Illinois to review for the 2025 Best Veterinary Medicine Schools in Illinois ranking.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Veterinary Medicine Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the veterinary medicine degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you want to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign.
Graduates who receive their degree from the veterinary medicine program earn about $96,557 in the first couple years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
