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2023 Best Value Animal Science Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$16,993 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$67,631 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Animal Science Master's Degree 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.

The Best Value Animal Science Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for animal science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Animal Science Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Animal Science

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for animal science students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UIUC graduate students pay an average of $17,823 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UIUC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Animal Science Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list.

Read full report on Animal Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The excellent master’s degree programs at Southern Illinois University Carbondale helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value animal science schools in Illinois. SIUC is a large public school located in the small city of Carbondale.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SIUC are $16,162 a year.

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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