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2023 Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

7 Colleges
$40,076 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$58,294 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Medicine School for You

Medicine is one of the most popular subjects to study in Illinois. With 1,344 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 5th out of all the majors we track in the state.

It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

The Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in Illinois to see which programs offered the best value experiences for medicine students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois

Check out the medicine programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Medicine

$15,603 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Chicago the best value school in Illinois for medicine students. UIC is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UIC are $15,603 a year.

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$15,240 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois list. SIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Carbondale.

SIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $15,240 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$47,808 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Loyola University Chicago helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in Illinois. Located in the city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Loyola Chicago are $47,808 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Loyola Chicago also did well on our Best Medicine Schools in Illinois list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois list. Located in the suburb of North Chicago, RFUMS is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

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#5

Rush University

Chicago, IL
$29,828 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rush University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois list. Rush University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

Rush University undergraduate students pay an average of $29,828 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#6

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL
$60,768 Average Tuition & Fees

Northwestern University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Medicine Schools in Illinois ranking. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Northwestern undergraduate students pay an average of $60,768 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Northwestern also made our Best Medicine Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #1.

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#7

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL
$60,963 Average Tuition & Fees

University of Chicago did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for medicine students. It came in at #7 on the list. UChicago is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UChicago are $60,963 per year.

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Best Value Medicine Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 1,329
Michigan 1,198
Indiana 494
Wisconsin 419

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

Medicine Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Medicine 20,665

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 7 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).

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