U.S. News & World Report annually ranks institutions on a number of ranking categories and weights them to compose an overall score for each institution in order to compare one institution to another. Illinois State is compared to other National Doctoral institutions and the following is a summary of the 2008 rankings.
Summary of 2007 undergraduate rankings (pdf)
Table 1 (xls) - Comparison of Illinois State's position in ranking categories
Table 2 (xls) - Comparison of Illinois State's data between 2007 and 2008 rankings
Table 3 (xls) - Comparison of Illinois State to Tier II and Tier III institutions
Appendix (xls) - Variable used in computation of overall U.S. News score