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2023 Most Popular Online Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois

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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. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Most Popular Online Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 10 schools in Illinois to see which online doctor's degree programs were the most popular for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Learn more about these popular schools with online programs:

565 Total Awards
$14,090 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Chamberlain University - Illinois to be the most popular school for healthcare students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Illinois. This large private for-profit school is located in Addison, Illinois, and it awarded 565 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 93% of those degree recipients were women.

Chamberlain - Illinois is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.

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#2

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois
67 Total Awards
$17,400 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bradley University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Bradley University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in Peoria, Illinois that handed out 67 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 75% were women.

Around 95% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#3

McKendree University

Lebanon, Illinois
11 Total Awards

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at McKendree University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular healthcare schools in Illinois. McKendree is located in Lebanon, Illinois and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.

Around 91% of those degree recipients were women.

During the 2019-2020 year, about 68% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#4

Rush University

Chicago, Illinois
345 Total Awards

You’ll be in good company if you attend Rush University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Online Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 345 diplomas to qualifed doctor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Around 73% of those degree recipients were women.

In 2019-2020 about 74% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#5

University of St Francis

Joliet, Illinois
6 Total Awards
$13,839 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you attend University of St Francis. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Online Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. University of Saint Francis is a private not-for-profit institution located in Joliet, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.

Around 89% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#5

Lewis University

Romeoville, Illinois
6 Total Awards
$14,960 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you attend Lewis University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Online Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Lewis is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Romeoville, Illinois. It awarded 6 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.

Around 85% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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5 Total Awards
$8,740 Average Tuition & Fees

With a ranking of #7, Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for healthcare students working on their doctor’s degree. Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing is a very small private not-for-profit school located in Peoria, Illinois that handed out 5 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.

During the 2019-2020 year, about 98% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#8

Oak Point University

Chicago, Illinois
4 Total Awards
$15,349 Average Tuition & Fees

With a ranking of #8, Oak Point University did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for healthcare students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in Chicago, Illinois, the very small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualifed doctor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Around 75% of those degree recipients were women.

Around 71% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#9

North Park University

Chicago, Illinois
2 Total Awards
$14,184 Average Tuition & Fees

North Park University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular doctor’s degree healthcare programs. North Park is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 2 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.

To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 92% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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404 Total Awards
$36,765 Average Tuition & Fees

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for healthcare students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. RFUMS is a small private not-for-profit school situated in North Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 404 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 50% of those degree recipients were women.

In 2019-2020 about 18% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 10 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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