2025 Best Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Chemistry is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #11 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 133 doctor's degrees in chemistry during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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 doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on chemistry students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of chemistry students who choose to seek a doctor'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.
• Student Debt - How much debt chemistry students go into to obtain their doctor'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 chemistry related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Chemistry Schools

The chemistry school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Chemistry in Illinois

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in chemistry.

Top Illinois Schools for a Doctorate in Chemistry

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

29 Annual Graduates

$101,242 Median Starting Salary

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in chemistry. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population.

Chemistry doctor's degree recipients from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign receive an earnings boost of around $5,470 over the typical earnings of chemistry graduates.

More information about a doctorate in chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

16 Annual Graduates

University of Illinois at Chicago is a good decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in chemistry. UIC is a very large public university located in the city of Chicago.More information about a doctorate in chemistry from University of Illinois at Chicago

Best Chemistry Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	101
Ohio	144	131
Indiana	132	112
Wisconsin	108	66

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Rankings in Majors Related to Chemistry

One of 8 majors within the Physical Sciences area of study, Chemistry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Chemistry Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Chemistry	133

Most Popular Majors Related to Chemistry

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Physics	89
Astronomy & Astrophysics	24
Geological & Earth Sciences	13
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology	7

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.