Welcome to Western Illinois University…recognized among “America’s Best Value Colleges” by The Princeton Review (2009).

US News America's Best Colleges 2010.For the fifth consecutive year, Western has been named one of the best colleges and universities in the Midwest by The Princeton Review. Western was selected as one of 158 institutions it profiles in The Princeton Review's 2010 Best Colleges "Best in the Midwest" section. According to The Princeton Review, the 640 colleges named "regional best(s)" represent only about 25 percent (one out of four) of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.

Western also continues to be ranked in the top tier of Midwest Universities Master's granting institutions, according to U.S. News and World Report's Annual College Rankings 2010 edition. Western is among 20 public universities included in the Midwest top tier of 74 masters institutions.

In addition, Western was recently designated as a "Military Friendly School" by G.I. Jobs Magazine, and is also recognized as one of only two Illinois public universities for the Center for Student Opportunity's (CSO) "College Access and Opportunity Guide" for its retention of first-generation and low-income students. Western has also received a "Best Practice" recognition from the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity as one of only 13 institutions nationally for the retention of first-generation and low-income students.

You get this quality education at a four-year lock-in rate for tuition, fees, room and board. Guaranteed.

You can’t get this at any other state school. Guaranteed.