You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Conducting Major in Illinois list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified ’s conducting students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.