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 general education bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general education students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general education students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general education related body.

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

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Sadly , we did not have adequate info to produce a ranking of the quality schools for general education in Illinois. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer general education and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient 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	629	359
Ohio	612	218
Indiana	535	49
Wisconsin	435	254

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General Education Related Rankings by Major

General Education is one of 0 different types of General Education programs to choose from.

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.