<p>coolbreeze, you should check your stats. While Illinois shows preferential treatment to in-state residents (most state universities do), it is not that unbalanced. In fact, it has been under fire from many in-state students as it is not showing as much preferential treatment to in-state as it used to. plus it is approximately 25,000 for an instate student to go there. i live in illinois and could go to another state and get a better price.</p>
<p>But to reply to the question, it is one of the best public schools in the midwest, top-ten in the country. Really good engineering, sciences, and buisness.</p>