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, The Wall Street Journal, 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
Augustana University
2
Cottey College
3
Calvin College
4
Taylor University
5
College of the Ozarks
6
Cedarville University
7
Northwestern College
8
Ohio Northern University
9
Dordt College
10
Goshen College
11
University of Mount Union
12
Clarke University
13
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
14
Dakota Wesleyan University
15
Marietta College
16
Wisconsin Lutheran College
17
Huntington University
18
Hastings College
19
Millikin University
20
Kuyper College
21
Benedictine College
22
Manchester University
23
Trinity Christian College
24
Loras College
25
University of Jamestown
26
Crown College
27
University of Minnesota-Crookston
28
McPherson College
29
Valley City State University
30
Adrian College
31
Trine University
32
Defiance College
33
York College
34
Oakland City University
35
Eureka College
36
Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
37
Blackburn College
38
Dickinson State University
39
Tabor College
40
Wilmington College
41
Culver-Stockton College
42
Kansas Wesleyan University
43
Olivet College
44
MacMurray College
45
Grand View University
46
Rochester College
47
Midland University
48
North Central University
49
Lake Superior State University
