<p>I visited Loyola and DePaul and now I'm kind of looking into UIC. </p>
<p>Which of these universities is the "best" in academics? (I'd be majoring in Communications/Media Studies or International Studies)</p>
<p>Has anyone visited UIC? How did you like it compared to the other universities?</p>
<p>What is your overall opinion of these colleges? I'm debating whether or not to apply to some of them...</p>
<p>Loyola has the best reputation, and perhaps the most traditional college experience, although they have a good number of commuters; the kids I know who attend are in the upper twenties on their ACTs. DePaul is a notch below, but the campus and city experience are great, and some of their schools are top notch, especially music and theater. UIC also has some strong areas, especially in urban studies, social work, and some of the medical programs. UIC was built as a commuter school and though that has changed somewhat, it is still, by and large, made up of commuters and first generation college attendees.</p>
<p>What’s your intended major? Business is reportedly strong at both Loyola and DePaul. Life sciences [Biology, Chemistry] is also good at LUC.</p>
<p>If I had to choose among the three schools, I would pick Loyola for the undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>Being from the area I know quite a few people who went to UIC/depaul. I have not heard anything good about UIC yet. </p>
<p>Things I have heard about UIC are that it has really dark/drab class rooms, lots of commuter student, far more than its fair share of teachers/TAs that have trouble speaking english or that just don’t care, and the girls at UIC are sub-mutant(not my words). </p>
<p>I have been to UIC a few times to visit friends and the campus inside and out is pretty ugly and dirty. If that even matters. It looks like a very depressing place to me. </p>
<p>I can’t speak much on the education quality, but one of my friends said the quality of education was on par with ‘getting tests and learning by yourself from the book’ because the actual class room experience was terrible. He said this after his freshman year, so he had mostly lecture classes. Both his math teacher and math TA had trouble speaking english.</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I wasn’t sure about UIC and I think I’m gonna save myself the money since I’m more interested in other universities. Thanks again!</p>
<p>I have heard bad things about Loyola, but it does have an amazing campus. A couple of my friends enjoy DePaul, and UIC is very cheap for in-staters and has (relatively) good finance/med programs.</p>
<p>DePaul is the better school</p>
<p>Loyola with out a doubt. DePaul is just next choice but if your ACT/SAT can get you to Loyola than go for it.Loyola offers a lot of financial help to anyone that really wants to go there and from what I hear UIC is ehh. I wanted to go to those schools to but to me its really between Loyola or DePaul… after reading this thread about UIC I’m second guessing but really I guess you just got to check it out yourself. don’t go by what others say,even though it sounds about right haha</p>