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2023 Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

8 Colleges
$12,196 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,380 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 1,978 degrees and certificates were awarded to clinical, counseling and applied psychology students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #17 most popular major in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate 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 8 schools in Illinois to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for clinical psychology 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 Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Clinical & Counseling Psychology

Our 2023 rankings named Illinois State University the best value school in Illinois for clinical, counseling and applied psychology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Illinois State are $9,773 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Located in the suburb of Edwardsville, SIUE is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SIUE are $9,316 per year.

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#3

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL

Out of the 8 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Illinois University landed the # 3 spot on the list. EIU is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Charleston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at EIU are $10,640 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Louis University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large city of Chicago, NLU is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NLU are $12,096 per year.

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#5

Trinity Christian College

Palos Heights, IL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity Christian College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Trinity Christian is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Palos Heights.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Trinity Christian are $10,708 per year.

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Northern Illinois University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Located in the small suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

NIU graduate students pay an average of $11,390 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Chicago State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for clinical, counseling and applied psychology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. CSU is a small public school located in the city of Chicago.

CSU graduate students pay an average of $9,728 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Chicago came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. Located in the city of Chicago, The Chicago School Chicago Campus is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The Chicago School Chicago Campus graduate students pay an average of $23,918 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 672
Ohio 781
Indiana 927
Wisconsin 454

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Clinical Psychology

Related Major Annual Graduates
General Psychology 141,695
Child Development & Psychology 17,542
Other Psychology 2,683

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 8 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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