Actually Purdue does offer a degree in Fine Arts
This is good to know.
Another thing I see as somewhat negative for UIUC (CompE in our case) is the size of the department. It is 3-4x the size of UW-Madison’s and UMN’s (and ~2x the size of Purdue’s). Not a good thing when the student is already concerned about feeling like a number at a large university.
The ASEE has a website that allows you to see the percentage of engineering students by major, gender, residency and ethnicity if the schools report it.
I have used that asee.org website a lot. The very detailed information it provides is very useful! But their most current information is from 2014, and engineering colleges/departments have been growing very rapidly over the past 2-3 years.
As an example, asee.org shows 905 computer engineering majors at UIUC for fall of 2014, but their website indicates 1146 for this year.
http://www.ece.illinois.edu/about/rankings-and-statistics.asp
Illinois has been increasing its international student numbers significantly over the past few years as well.