2021 Best Colleges in Illinois for Students from Jamaica

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Jamaican Students in Illinois ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

After analyzing 2 schools in Illinois, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Jamaican students in Illinois. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall quality.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Illinois for Students from Jamaica

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL

$50,375 Avg Tuition & Fees

33.9% International Students

Illinois Institute of Technology tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Jamaican students in Illinois. Illinois Institute of Technology is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 620 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 33.9% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as China, India, and Spain come to Illinois Tech to study.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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2

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

$60,768 Avg Tuition & Fees

16.3% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Jamaican students in Illinois. Located in Evanston, Illinois, the large private not-for-profit school handed out 2,722 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 16.3% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at Northwestern come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.