“Competition from schools outside of the state with generous scholarship awards appears to be the most significant factor in the decision not to enroll at Illinois,” a (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) statement said last year.
Enter the University of Alabama. It awarded 203 full-tuition scholarships, out of 305 total, to freshman Illinoisans in 2017, defraying more than $100,000 in costs per student. The university has nearly quintupled over the past decade the amount of institutional, non-need-based aid it awards. …
Alabama’s recruitment strategy grew out of dynamics familiar to Illinois schools: a drop in state funding for public universities. More than one-third of university income came from state funding as recently as 2007 — easily the highest chunk of its overall revenue. That proportion dropped to 12.1 percent by 2016 while the share of tuition revenue inched upward, university figures show.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-illinois-students-brain-drain-20180405-story.html
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This article hits the nail on the head. My daughter considered Illinois before committing to Bama. We are from Illinois and already have a son at Univ of Illinois. The financial package offered by Alabama was the reason she became interested. After visiting the school, she was sold. Illinois losing many of its top students to Univ of Alabama
In between classes at medical school, my DD, a May '17 grad, texted me “Best decision I ever made!”
^^ Best wishes for your daughter in medical school.