5 Illinois schools land on WSJ's ‘Best Colleges' list, but the rankings aren't ‘the usual suspects' A new methodology used this year surfaced some "hidden gems," the Wall Street Journal said ...

The university is located in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana in east-central Illinois, 140 miles south of Chicago. ... make money and perhaps beat Wall Street at its own game.

Recent rankings by the Wall Street Journal evaluated and ranked colleges in the Midwestern U.S., and several Illinois schools made the cut on the publication’s lists.

Megan Graham covers the marketing and advertising industry for CMO Today at The Wall Street Journal. ... She studied news-editorial journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.