2023 Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois

Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which basic certificate programs offered the best educational experiences for teaching students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

View our full ranking methodology.

Top Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois

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#1

College of Lake County

Grayslake, Illinois

$9,632 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named College of Lake County the best school in Illinois for teaching students working on their basic certificate.

Students from Illinois who attend College of Lake County full time pay an average of $9,632 in tuition and fees. If you are from out of state, expect to pay an average of $12,824.

College of Lake County does offer online classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 91% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#2

Rasmussen University - Illinois

Rockford, Illinois

$13,883 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Rasmussen University - Illinois landed the # 2 spot on the list.

If you don’t receive financial aid, you can expect a bill for $13,883 to cover tuition and fees at Rasmussen University - Illinois. The school does not offer an in-state discount.

Online courses are available at Rasmussen University - Illinois, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 99% took at least some of their classes online.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

References

• Read more about our ranking methodology.
• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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