<p>"They typically consider the middle of the US as “fly over country.”</p>
<p>I don’t know mom2collegekids, some universities in the middle of the US, like Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern and Wisconsin are among the most in-demand destinations for the nation’s leading thinkers. Many other universities in the middle also are very appealing to top professors, including Notre Dame, Rice, UIUC, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt and Washington U.</p>