Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois)

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With 5,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students, Bradley offers the opportunities and choices of a larger university (with over 90 programs in 5 colleges plus a graduate school) and the quality, personal attention, and challenge of a small private college.

Bradley University was ranked 7th among Midwestern comprehensive masters-degree-granting universities in the 2006 edition of America's Best Colleges published by U.S. News & World Report. In addition, Bradley's Department of Industrial Engineering was ranked second among colleges that do not grant PhDs.

Bradley University was named 24th on the list of "Top 25 Most Connected Campuses" and "Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Campuses" in the nation by The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine.