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2023 Best Value Animal Science Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$16,437 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,855 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Animal Science School for You

Animal Science is the #108 most popular major in Illinois with 230 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Animal Science Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which programs offered the best value experiences for animal science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Animal Science Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for animal science majors pursuing a .

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Animal Science

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to be the best value school for animal science students who want to pursue a degree in Illinois. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UIUC are $17,634 a year. The average amount in student loans that animal science majors at UIUC take out is $17,250. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $512.

UIUC also took the #3 spot in our Best Animal Science Schools in Illinois rankings.

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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 Animal Science Schools in Illinois list. SIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Carbondale.

SIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $15,240 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Animal Science majors at SIUC take out an average of $21,650 in student loans while working on their egree.

Full Animal Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Report

Best Value Animal Science Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 171
Ohio 254
Indiana 198
Wisconsin 298

One of 16 majors within the area of study, animal science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians 8,646
Agricultural Economics & Business 8,098
General Agriculture 3,370
Horticulture 3,234
Plant Sciences 3,175

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Billy Hathorn.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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