The 15 best colleges in the Midwest

We recently came out with our list of the 50 best colleges in America.

Many of the top schools - like MIT (No. 1), Stanford (No.2), and Harvard (No. 3) - appear on the east or west coasts of the States, but there are a number of incredible schools in the heart of America: the Midwest.

To create this list, we asked readers to choose the colleges that best prepare students for success after graduation from a list of what we perceived to be the top 100 schools in the country.

We combined the survey results with each school's average SAT score and the median starting salary. (You can read the full methodology here.)

We filtered our list down to show the top schools in the Midwest. Keep scrolling to see which colleges made it.