Colleges similar to Bradley, TCU, Butler

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Hi,

Current HS junior with Cum 3.94 W and cum 3.5 U gpa. Pre-act 27 psat 1270 (540 math 690 English) currently in Ap English and APUSH. Will take Ap calc, Ap psych and ap eng next year. I’m an A/B student, never gotten anything below a B-

Play softball for highschool, NHS, 200+ voulenteer hours, part time job.

Want to major in secondary education/ English.

I live in Illinois/Chicago suburb and am looking for college 1-6ish hours away that is similar to Bradley university, butler, TCU(but closer) and maybe ISU. Would like middle size school 5000-15000 and preferably Christian affiliated but not necessary. Want school with a good ‘fit’, I visited Bradley and liked the environment a lot

Thanks!

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Perhaps one of the Jesuit colleges - Loyola Chicago, Xavier Marquette, St. Louis U?

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I’ve looked into marquette as an option, I’m not so much interested in downtown campuses like depaul, Loyola ect…

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I’m from around that area and one of my friends goes to Augustana and loves it

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Maybe U Dayton which is Catholic (Marianists, I think). Technically an urban school but not downtown with a lovely, expansive campus and about 8,000 undergrads.

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^ Yes, Marianist and the college I was going to recommend. Grants and scholarships move with tution changes once you’re enrolled so no net change. https://udayton.edu/apply/undergraduate/cost/index.php

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You could use the college navigator website. It’s a federal website. You can do a search with a distance from a zip code up to 250 miles. There are filters for undergraduate enrollment/ public/private/housing/subject areas etc,

Here is the link.

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/

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Valparaiso is close in size and location, don’t have any information on their education dept.

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The University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, MN is just over 6 hours a way. It has about 10,000 students and is Catholic. They are well known for softball!

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Another thing you could do is go to the State’s Board of Ed in surrounding states and look to see what college/univ offer English 2nd ed approved teacher programs.

Here is the link for Illinois: Scroll down to chart starting on page IV. https://www.isbe.net/Documents/directory.pdf

When you are looking at the size of the school, it might include grad students and anyone taking one class-- even an on-line class. I saw a school advertise they had 5000 students but when I researched further it was more like 3000 full time undergrads