Northeastern Illinois University Science Building
There are eleven "National Universities" in the state. As of August 19, 2010, six of them ranked in the "first tier". The University of Chicago is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world in various independent university rankings, and its Booth School of Business,
Augustana College
Aurora University
Barat College
Benedictine University
Blackburn College
Bradley University
College of St. Francis
Columbia College Chicago
Concordia University
DePaul University
Dominican University
Eastern Illinois University
East-West University
Elmhurst College
Eureka College
Greenville College
Illinois College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois State University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Judson College
Kendall College
Knox College
Lake Forest College
Lewis University
Loyola University - Chicago
MacMurray College
McKendree College
Millikin University
Monmouth College
National-Louis University
North Central College
Northeastern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University
North Park University
Northwestern University
Olivet Nazarene University
Principia College
Quincy University
Robert Morris College
Rockford College
Roosevelt University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
St. Xavier University
Trinity Christian College
Trinity International University
University of Chicago
University of Illinois - Chicago
University of Ilinois - Urbana-Champaign
Western Illinois University
Wheaton College
Illinois Colleges and Universities Gene Wright Aug 3 . Illinois Colleges and Universities
