2025 Best General Public Health Schools in Illinois
9Colleges in Illinois
757General Public Health Degrees Awarded
General Public Health is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #39 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 9 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for general public health students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 757 degrees in general public health to qualified students.
Your choice of general public health school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general public health schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Public Health Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Public Health in Illinois
The schools below may not offer all types of general public health degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Northwestern University if you want to pursue a degree in general public health. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Evanston. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 53 general public health students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Illinois at Chicago is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general public health. UIC is a very large public university located in the large city of Chicago. This university ranks 10th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 196 general public health students who graduated with this degree at UIC in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Benedictine University if you want to pursue a degree in general public health. Located in the suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 14th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 218 general public health students who graduated with this degree at Benedictine U in the most recent data year.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general public health. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #41 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 18 general public health students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Loyola Chicago is a great university overall.
There were roughly 50 general public health students who graduated with this degree at Loyola Chicago in the most recent year we have data available.
Chamberlain - Illinois is a very large private for-profit university located in the suburb of Addison.
There were roughly 91 general public health students who graduated with this degree at Chamberlain - Illinois in the most recent year we have data available.
Augustana is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Rock Island. This college ranks 21st out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 20 general public health students who graduated with this degree at Augustana in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #135 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means DePaul is a great university overall.
There were about 33 general public health students who graduated with this degree at DePaul in the most recent data year.
NIU is a large public university located in the suburb of Dekalb. This university ranks 20th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 31 general public health students who graduated with this degree at NIU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of general public health school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general public health schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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