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2023 Best Value Nutrition Science Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$22,765 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,994 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nutrition Science School for You

With 77 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, nutrition science is the #175 most popular major in Illinois.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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 Nutrition Science Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Illinois to see which programs offered the best value experiences for nutrition science 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. 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 Nutrition Science Schools in Illinois

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

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Nutrition Science

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for nutrition science students. UIUC is a very large public school located in the city of Champaign.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UIUC are $17,634 per year.

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

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

#2

Dominican University

River Forest, IL
$35,420 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Dominican University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Dominican U is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of River Forest.

Dominican U undergraduate students pay an average of $35,420 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, nutrition science graduates from Dominican U take out $27,000 in student loans while working on their degree.

Dominican U also claimed a spot on our Best Nutrition Science Schools in Illinois list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Full Nutrition Science at Dominican University Report

$15,240 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Southern Illinois University Carbondale helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best nutrition science schools in Illinois. Located in the city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

SIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $15,240 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Nutrition Science majors at SIUC take out an average of $25,250 in student loans while working on their egree.

Full Nutrition Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Report

Best Value Nutrition Science Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 118
Ohio 81
Indiana 39
Wisconsin 106

One of 44 majors within the area of study, nutrition science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 34,975
Biological & Physical Science 30,075
Interdisciplinary Studies 9,074
International Studies 7,368
Behavioral Science 4,169

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 division, CSIRO.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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