2022 Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Community Psychology is the 531st most popular major in the country with 576 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 25 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community psychology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the community psychology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

Wheaton College Illinois

Wheaton, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$17,424 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wheaton College Illinois. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k list. Wheaton College Illinois is located in Wheaton, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s community psychology degrees to qualified students.

Wheaton College Illinois did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Community Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Wheaton College Illinois are $17,424.

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#2

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

$19,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Community Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #2 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s community psychology degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Community Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Loyola Chicago are $19,154.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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