One Illinois university was No. 4 on U.S. News & World Report's recent national rankings for best regional universities.

Along with national universities and national liberal arts colleges, U.S. News and World Report ranks regional universities and colleges. Those are schools that are broken in to four regional categories: North, East, Midwest and West. Here’s U.S. News and World Report’s description for the regional universities and colleges:

Regional Universities offer a broad scope of undergraduate degrees and some master’s degree programs but few, if any, doctoral programs. Regional Colleges focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than 50 percent of their degrees in liberal arts disciplines; this category also includes schools that have small bachelor’s degree programs but primarily grant two-year associate degrees.

Illinois is part of the Midwest region, and in the regional universities rankings, Illinois schools can be found everywhere in the top 100 with 19 of them on the list, including one school at number four. You can find out which schools made that list here, along with the seven colleges that made the rankings of top Midwest regional colleges.

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