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2023 Best Value Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$23,888 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$70,369 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, communication sciences students earned 860 degrees and certificates from an Illinois school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 5 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for communication sciences students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Communication Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Communication Sciences

Our analysis found Illinois State University to be the best value school for communication sciences students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Illinois. Located in the suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public college with a very large student population.

Illinois State graduate students pay an average of $9,773 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Communication Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

NIU graduate students pay an average of $11,390 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Communication Sciences at Northern Illinois University

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value communication sciences schools in Illinois. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UIUC are $17,823 a year.

Full Communication Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

#4

Rush University

Chicago, IL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rush University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Communication Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large city of Chicago, Rush University is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Rush University are $37,253 per year.

Full Communication Sciences at Rush University Report

#5

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Out of the 5 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 per year.

Northwestern also made our Best Communication Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Communication Sciences at Northwestern University

Best Value Communication Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Communication Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 924
Michigan 511
Indiana 480
Wisconsin 585

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, communication sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Communication Sciences Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Speech Pathology & Audiology 7,841
General Communication Sciences & Disorders 7,269
Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist 5,907
Audiology/Audiologist 1,032
Other Communication Disorders Sciences & Services 249

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Ghozt Tramp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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