Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Wheaton College Illinois landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Wheaton, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s archeology students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.