Forbes released its list of America’s Top Colleges on Tuesday, and three schools in Illinois made it into the top 50.

What we know:

The University of Chicago, based in Hyde Park, came in at No. 13 overall.

Evanston-based Northwestern University was ranked No. 16 overall.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the state’s flagship university, came in at No. 38.

More than a dozen other public and private institutions in Illinois were ranked among the 500 best schools, according to Forbes.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was ranked No. 1 overall.

The publication said the 500 schools were ranked "based exclusively on outcomes for undergraduates." But, it noted, the world of higher education is already being shaken up as the Trump administration has withheld funding

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