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Forbes Ranks the Best Colleges in Illinois for 2015
Seventeen of the highest-ranked Illinois colleges in 2015, according to Forbes.
Forbes published its annual list of America’s top colleges for 2015, which includes a total of 25 colleges in Illinois.
The methodology behind the report includes the analysis of five main factors with the weight of each factor listed:
- Student Satisfaction (25 percent)
- Post-Graduate Success (32.5 percent)
- Student Debt (25 percent)
- Four-year Graduation Rate (7.5 percent)
- Academic Success (10 percent)
The idea behind using this methodology is to base the greatness of a college on what students get out of their institutions, according to Forbes.
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Out of the list of best colleges in the country, here were the 17 highest-ranking schools in Illinois.
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