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Health & pre-med fields at Illinois

Illinois graduates about 388 pre-med & health fields majors a year, 5% of its graduating class. That puts it 49th of 543 schools we score for pre-med & health fields, a standout program at 82 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $67,000 four years out, 1.12× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $125 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

82/100Standout#49 of 543 for pre-med & health fields →
Graduates a year3885% of the class
Median pay 4 years out$67,0001.12× the same major nationally
Research in the field$125Ma year, NSF
Admit rate42%whole school
SAT middle 50%1320–1510whole school

Around Illinois

The UIUC Animal Sciences Lab, from the northwest
UIUC animal sciences lab 20081010 experiment6Photo: Experiment6 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum gate, Urbana, IL
Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum gate, Urbana, ILPhoto: Nick Number · CC BY 4.0 · source
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States (Unsplash SPhoto: Dayne Topkin dtopkin1 · CC0 · source
Farm House
Farm House aka Mumford HousePhoto: Sallyajackson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Where pre-med & health fields happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Engineering Sciences Building, Environmental Health and Safety Building, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Siebel Center for Computer Science, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Meat Science Lab, Plant Sciences Laboratory and Greenhouse, Animal Sciences Laboratory, Speech and Hearing Science Building, Materials Science & Engineering Building, Medical Sciences Building.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 144 · Student housing 84 · Dorm 45 · Athletics 22 · Arts 9 · Dining 6.

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Nearby in the pre-med & health fields ranking

  1. University of California, Berkeley 83
  2. Boston College 83
  3. University of California, Los Angeles 83
  4. University at Buffalo–SUNY 82
  5. University of Georgia 82
  6. University of Notre Dame 82
  7. The Catholic University of America 82
  8. University of Massachusetts–Amherst 81

Other strong majors at Illinois

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Illinois with every school we score in pre-med & health fields. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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