Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Colleges in Illinois

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Illinois that made our Best General Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Education School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The education bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality education program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general education students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general education students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt general education students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general education related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general education students working on their bachelor's degree.

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Because of missing data, we couldn't show you the general education quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer general education and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other General Education rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for General Education ranking.

Best General Education Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best General Education Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	359
Ohio	252	218
Indiana	235	49
Wisconsin	213	254

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General Education Related Rankings by Major

General Education is one of 14 different types of Education programs to choose from.

Education Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Education	72

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific	2,299
Teacher Education Subject Specific	826
Special Education	484
Multilingual Education	6
Educational Administration	2
Educational Assessment	2
Teaching Assistants	1
Other Education	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to KOKUYO. More about our data sources and methodologies.