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WalletHub Ranks the Best Community Colleges in Illinois

Four-year schools aren't for everyone, so here's a list of the Top 25 community colleges in Illinois for 2016, as ranked by WalletHub.

With students returning to school, WalletHub took a look at 821 community colleges across the country to determine which are among the best.

The personal finance website based its rankings off the following criteria: cost and financing, education outcomes and career outcomes.

Within these three categories were a total of 12 subcategories, such as grant availability, student-faculty ratio, and student-loan default rate (more information on the methodology and how each category weighed in the final ranking here).

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Here are WalletHub’s Top 25 Illinois community colleges, along with their national overall rank, total score, cost and financing rank, education outcome rank and career outcomes rank.

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