Which Lake Forest College major has the lowest debt?

English graduates leave with a median of $23,250 in federal loans, the lowest among 10 Lake Forest College bachelor's programs that report debt.

How much does Lake Forest College cost?

Tuition and fees are $56,402 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $28,673 a year.

How many Lake Forest College programs report graduate pay?

11 bachelor's programs at Lake Forest College report first-year pay, and 10 of them also report federal debt.

Lake Forest College Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Private nonprofit college
Lake Forest, IL
1,813 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

11 Lake Forest College bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Finance pays the most in the first year ($61,264), and Environmental Science and Conservation the least ($26,998). The median program pays $39,054.

Tuition and fees$56,402Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$28,673Per year

Graduation rate78%Within 6 years

Admission rate57%Of applicants

All 11 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Illinois" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across Illinois. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Illinois
1	FinanceAbout 31 graduates a year	$61,264	$84,573	$27,000	5th of 21
2	EconomicsAbout 24 graduates a year	$53,529	$73,747	$27,000	6th of 15
3	Computer ScienceAbout 9 graduates a year	$48,587	Not reported	$27,000	21st of 23
4	BusinessAbout 47 graduates a year	$44,283	$57,360	$27,000	4th of 5
5	CommunicationsAbout 14 graduates a year	$42,835	$68,321	$27,000	3rd of 26
6	Other Social SciencesGraduates a year not reported	$39,054	Not reported	$26,500	2nd of 2
7	Romance LanguagesAbout 23 graduates a year	$35,622	$49,254	$27,000	7th of 10
8	Political ScienceAbout 18 graduates a year	$34,317	$56,287	$27,000	11th of 20
9	BiologyAbout 26 graduates a year	$33,380	Not reported	$27,000	13th of 27
10	EnglishAbout 18 graduates a year	$32,982	$54,722	$23,250	8th of 18
11	Environmental Science and ConservationAbout 19 graduates a year	$26,998	Not reported	Not reported	7th of 8

Program names link to the program's own page, and Illinois ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five Illinois programs in the field do too.

3 more bachelor's programs report debt but not pay, so they aren't listed.

Quick picks

Highest first-year pay

Finance$61,264
Economics$53,529
Computer Science$48,587
Business$44,283
Communications$42,835

Lowest median debt

English$23,250
Other Social Sciences$26,500
Finance$27,000
Economics$27,000
Computer Science$27,000

Largest programs

BusinessAbout 47 graduates a year
FinanceAbout 31 graduates a year
BiologyAbout 26 graduates a year
EconomicsAbout 24 graduates a year
Romance LanguagesAbout 23 graduates a year

Common questions

Finance graduates earn a median of $61,264 in their first year, the most of 11 Lake Forest College bachelor's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Illinois rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels