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2023 Best Value Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

16 Colleges
$26,558 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$62,738 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Psychology Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, psychology students earned 2,220 degrees and certificates from an Illinois school, making the subject the 8th in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 16 schools in Illinois to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for psychology 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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for psychology majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Top 10 Best Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Illinois State University the best value school in Illinois for psychology students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public school with a fairly 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 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Chicago. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large city of Chicago, The Chicago School Chicago Campus is a private not-for-profit school 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend National Louis University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the large city of Chicago, NLU is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

NLU graduate students pay an average of $12,096 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Northern Illinois University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value psychology schools in Illinois. Located in the suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a large student population.

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

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great value for psychology students working on their doctor’s degree. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

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

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UIUC is ranked #4 for overall quality for psychology in Illinois.

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Wheaton College Illinois did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the suburb of Wheaton, Wheaton College Illinois is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Wheaton College Illinois are $18,096 per year.

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DePaul University

Chicago, IL

DePaul University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at DePaul are $18,341 a year.

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Loyola University Chicago did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 per year.

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Roosevelt University

Chicago, IL

Roosevelt University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Roosevelt is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Roosevelt are $21,605 a year.

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Located in the city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SIUC are $16,162 per year.

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Best Value Psychology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 735
Ohio 977
Wisconsin 529
Michigan 745

Psychology Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 29,224
General Psychology 8,051
Child Development & Psychology 2,576
Other Psychology 2,162

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 16 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 Nevit Dilmen.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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