CHART: How Local Universities Compare

SHARE CHART: How Local Universities Compare

Here’s where national and regional schools in the Chicago area fall in the latest U.S. News & World report rankings of the nation’s universities and colleges, and what their graduation, acceptance and student loan default rates* look like:

*The percentage of students who were in default on their federal student loans at the end of the second year after starting loan repayments in 2010.

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