Iowa is home to some of the most intellectually distinguished institutions in the Midwest. The University of Iowa — an AAU member and home to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the most celebrated creative writing program in the world with 17 Pulitzer Prize winners — leads alongside Iowa State University, where the first electronic digital computer […]

Indiana is home to some of the most iconic institutions in American higher education. The University of Notre Dame — a top-20 Catholic research university with the most powerful alumni network of any faith-based institution in the world — leads alongside Purdue’s top-10 engineering program, IU Bloomington’s legendary Kelley School of Business and world-famous Jacobs […]

Illinois is home to one of the most distinguished and diverse higher education systems in the Midwest. From Northwestern University and the University of Chicago — two elite private research universities consistently ranked among the top 15 globally — to the flagship University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an AAU member with the top computer science program […]