2025 Best General Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois
3
Colleges in Illinois
99
Bachelor's Degrees
Ranked #39 in popularity,
general public health is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 99 bachelor's degrees in general public health during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Public Health School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The general public health 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
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 take this into account we consider 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.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general public health students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general public health 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general public health related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general public health students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 General Public Health Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
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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