It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for student athletes. 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 Men's Wrestling in Illinois ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for Men's Wrestling athletes in Illinois. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the athletic competitiveness of the school and the school's overall quality. This means that a school must provide students with a great education in addition to having a good sports team if it wants to rank well.
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Top Colleges in Illinois for Men's Wrestling athletes in Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Men’s Wrestling athletes in Illinois. UIUC is a large public school situated in Champaign, Illinois. It awarded 9,150 bachelor’s degrees in .
The Men’s Wrestling team at UIUC brought home $352,369 in revenue in a single year. The great academic progress rate of 981 shows that team members perform well in the classroom, too.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. UIUC also took the #3 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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Out of the 2 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, McKendree University landed the #2 spot on the list. McKendree University is a small private not-for-profit school located in Lebanon, Illinois that handed out 440 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the Men’s Wrestling team at McKendree made $535,989 in revenue.
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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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
