When it comes to popularity, systems engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #160 out of 395 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
There was only one school in Illinois to review for the 2025 Best Systems Engineering 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 Systems Engineering Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of systems engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you want to pursue a degree in systems engineering. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a fairly large student population.
After graduation, systems engineering degree recipients generally earn an average of $81,785 at the beginning of their careers.
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).
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