Bringing the College Consensus method to the Best Regional Colleges-Midwest means giving students a fully rounded, unbiased perspective on what those in the know have to say about their higher education options. With a wide range of published rankings and student reviews out there, College Consensus brings together the most trustworthy data to make an aggregate ranking. That provides the fullest picture available for Midwestern students and future students.
How Do We Rank the Best Regional Colleges in the Midwest?
The College Consensus method looks across the crowded landscape of college rankings and boils it all down to a functional rating. The Publisher Rating portion of the College Consensus is based on published rankings by numerous reputable ranking agencies, including U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and Wallethub. The Student Review Rating includes verified student reviews from sites like Students Review and Unigo, summed up into one rating. The College Consensus combines the two into a single ranking – the final, aggregate ranking. Read more about our rankings methodology and sources at our about page.
The Midwest’s best regional colleges are the undergraduate institutions preparing the Midwest’s professional and technical workforce. The College Consensus Best Regional Colleges-Midwest highlights the smaller public and private bachelor’s and associate’s degree colleges that don’t get the glory, but make a difference in students’ lives. It’s the 2-year and 4-year colleges that keep the economy humming, and that’s especially true in the Midwest, with vast rural areas and industrialized manufacturing cities. For Midwestern students and prospective students, the College Consensus best regional ranking is a valuable research tool.
What’s Different About the College Consensus Ranking?
The special method developed by College Consensus puts the realities of ranking front and center. Every ranking has its own methodology and bias, but putting them all together gives College Consensus a birds-eye view of the landscape. That wider perspective ensures prospective students that they are getting a comprehensive ranking that takes in all of what’s known and thought about the Midwest’s regional colleges. And that makes College Consensus a one-stop shop for rankings.
The Consensus Best Regional Colleges-Midwest are listed in descending order by their Consensus score. In the event of ties, schools are ranked in alphabetical order with the same rank number.
1
Cottey College
2
Calvin College
3
Taylor University
4
Cedarville University
5
Augustana University
6
Northwestern College
7
Benedictine College
8
College of the Ozarks
9
Loras College
9
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
11
Ohio Northern University
12
Goshen College
13
Dakota Wesleyan University
14
Manchester University
15
Marietta College
16
Bluffton University
17
University of Jamestown
18
Huntington University
18
Adrian College
20
Hastings College
20
Wisconsin Lutheran College
22
Clarke University
23
Trinity Christian College
24
University of Mount Union
25
Kuyper College
26
Dordt College
27
Trine University
28
University of Minnesota-Crookston
29
Eureka College
30
Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
31
Millikin University
32
Oakland City University
33
Valley City State University
34
McPherson College
35
Defiance College
36
Tabor College
37
Crown College
38
North Central University
39
Dickinson State University
40
Wilmington College
41
Blackburn College
42
Olivet College
43
Culver-Stockton College
44
Grace University
44
Kansas Wesleyan University
46
Grand View University
47
MacMurray College
48
Iowa Wesleyan University
49
Lake Superior State University
49
Midland University
