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2023 Best Value Sustainability Science Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$29,823 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$51,151 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Sustainability Science School for You

In 2020-2021, 141 degrees and certificates were awarded to sustainability science students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #72 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Sustainability Science Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which programs offered the best value experiences for sustainability science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Sustainability Science Schools in Illinois

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

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Sustainability Science

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to be the best value school for sustainability science students who want to pursue a degree in Illinois. 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 made our Best Sustainability Science Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #3.

Full Sustainability Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

#2

DePaul University

Chicago, IL
$42,012 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Sustainability Science Schools in Illinois list. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at DePaul are $42,012 per year.

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Best Value Sustainability Science Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 61
Ohio 37
Indiana 7
Wisconsin 65

One of 36 majors within the area of study, sustainability science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Sustainability Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2,491
Nutrition Science 1,496
Behavioral Science 1,358
Computational Science 1,063
International Studies 918

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 TonyTheTiger.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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