Forbes launched its listing of America’s High Faculties on Tuesday, and three colleges in Illinois made it into the highest 50.
What we all know:
The College of Chicago, based mostly in Hyde Park, got here in at No. 13 general.
Evanston-based Northwestern College was ranked No. 16 general.
The College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the state’s flagship college, got here in at No. 38.
Greater than a dozen different private and non-private establishments in Illinois had been ranked among the many 500 finest colleges, based on Forbes.
The Massachusetts Institute of Know-how was ranked No. 1 general.
The publication stated the five hundred colleges had been ranked “based mostly completely on outcomes for undergraduates.” However, it famous, the world of upper schooling is already being shaken up because the Trump administration has withheld funding from main universities, curbed analysis spending, and pupil visas.
Forbes wrote that about two dozen personal colleges, which rely closely on federal loans for college students, tuition-paying worldwide college students, and federal analysis grants, are particularly weak. Northwestern, the College of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of Know-how had been on that listing.
By the numbers:
Listed below are the Illinois colleges that made the highest 500 lists and their general rating:
- No. 13 – College of Chicago
- No. 16 – Northwestern College
- No. 38 – College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- No. 108 – College of Illinois at Chicago
- No. 159 – Wheaton Faculty
- No. 171 – Illinois Institute of Know-how
- No. 208 – DePaul College
- No. 242 – Loyola College Chicago
- No. 260 – Illinois State College
- No. 305 – Bradley College
- No. 329 – Illinois Wesleyan College
- No. 346 – Augustana Faculty
- No. 376 – Lewis College
- No. 379 – Northern Illinois College
- No. 387 – College of Illinois at Springfield
- No. 390 – Lake Forest Faculty
- No. 403 – Elmhurst College
- No. 458 – North Central Faculty
For the complete listing, go to forbes.com/top-colleges.
