UIUC or UIC?

<p>Actually, on a per student basis, UIC receives more money from the University of Illinois than both UIS and UIUC. However, UIC’s expenses are significantly more than the other two school. Once you just for that fact, UIC gets less money on a per student basis than UIS and UIUC. They have managed to separate funding for the health care colleges from the other schools at UIC. Due to that, students at UIC are now at par compared to students at SIUE.
The graduate labs are very different from the undergrad labs. UIC has one of the strongest magnets in the world.</p>

<p>Can someone tell me how computer science at UIC is?? I wanted to apply for UIUC but missed the deadline and have also applied for UIC comp sci. There is a good chance I will be attending there. What is it like??? do TA’s teach?? or is it by profs…i really want to make sure i am getting the best from here!!! and what are classes like?? overcrowded??..thanks!!!</p>

<p>I am sorry, but I have a big problem with all this looking down upon UIC students. </p>

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<p>And anyway, all of those UIUC students get use to seeing UIC students, you will be most likely working with them or for UIC alumni. You need to be able to work with people regardless of where they went to school.</p>

<p>^ Well said!</p>

<p>I haven’t read the entire thread, just skimmed over it. I would take the advice of an economist, or from whatever profession, about marriage with a grain of salt. It seems likeMr. Sowell sees every woman has the potential to be a good wife. AHAAHAHA. I digress.</p>

<p>There is nothing wrong with attending UIC - it’s just you have to be the best at what you do there. Same goes for any student and any university/college. I have two friends, one graduated from UIUC a year early, top 1% of his graduating class (in chemistry), Bronze Tablet thingy, and was accepted into med school this year; while another is currently a sophomore science major in UICs honors program who is also planning on attending med school. If you’re bright enough, and know how to manage your studies and extracurricular activities, I don’t see how you can fail on getting a fine college experience and education (depends on how you deifne ‘education’). I think some people forget that the individual makes their own reality most of the time. Having resources, competent professors and peers can only take you so far. Fit is important. Believe me. I’m at a university that I truly loathe and I cannot wait to transfer.</p>

<p>Sowell sees every woman has the potential to be a good wife.</p>

<p>Classic Rhetorical tactic. You attack something irrelevant to my point. (Even though Sowell’s books have always said the opposite of that statement) (I hope i am not feeding your ■■■■■) </p>

<p>All Sowell meant was some people may do better in a school than what US world report ranking’s may imply.</p>

<p>I chose UIC because of the location and the fact that they give good financial aid and I even got a computer science scholarship. If I’d taken Urbana computer Science, I would have barely got any aid and NO scholarship. I realize that even though UofI is like the best for computer science. It all comes to affordability. And the first year is pretty much the same for both schools. If I really feel that I want UIUC I would research all the criteria beforehand and try my best to fulfill them so that I can effectively transfer. Also I do not like the idea of only having the university life around me and nothing else. For example chicago exposes you to so many different cultural activities. Plus, my philosophy is ‘jewels shine everywhere’. if you are a good student but are at a 3rd tier school, you will still do well and you will be as successful as many others.</p>

<p>It sure is a good thing people keep this 6 year thread alive by year after year spitting out ridiculous statements.</p>

<p>Apparently everyone from UIUC has to inflate their own ego by belittling UIC and anyone from UIC has to inflate their own ego by belittling UIUC. Give it a rest people. Both are good schools. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.</p>

<p>As long as these two schools are in service, this thread will be alive haha. Idk, this is a big ego trip, that is for sure.</p>

<p>I wonder how UIC making it into USNWR’s tier 1 will impact any opinions. Personally, I don’t care much for rankings, but some do. It appears the powers to be at UIC are very pleased about it.</p>

<p>^ and so is SIU and ISU. I guess they’re just as a good as UIUC.</p>

<p>You guess wrong blue. Look at the incoming freshman profiles. While they are fine schools, they are not a match for uiuc in most, if not all, areas of study.</p>

<p>He was being sarcastic. Can we let this thread die already? It is just perpetuating an argument between two ridiculous parties.</p>

<p>The one fact I have heard about UIC is that their civil engineering and TAM courses are less challenging than those at UIUC because they pack less into the course. That is coming from transfer students who have been to both.</p>

<p>If you’re family does not have much money, you will get subsidized loans. That being said, as an in stater, your entire education at UIUC will be 100,000$. That’s the cost of a cheap house; a really cheap house in many areas of the US.</p>

<p>In this country we don’t take education seriously enough, often penny pinching and making our kids pay for it. It’s pretty dumb, because again, 100,000$ is chump change when you’re paying back the federal government with low monthly installments. As a CS major from UIUC you will have no problem doing that. </p>

<p>That being said, the only reason I’d pick UIC over UIUC if I got accepted into engineering at both is if I was really afraid of UIUC’s education. Better an engineering degree from somewhere than none from UIUC.</p>

<p>UIC is a decent school, but rankings exist for a reason. We all like to wish them away, but they are what they are. The professors at UIUC are not all stellar, but the SAT scores and highschool GPAs of entrants to UIUC engineering are on a different plateau from UIC.</p>

<p>^^^$100,000 is chump change? Wow, just… wow. How low do you really think a monthly payment on a $100K loan over 10 years is? fyi, it’s around $1100 PER MONTH! </p>

<p>Some loans can be subsidized based on family income, but no one gets $100K in subsidized loans.</p>

<p>entire education at UIUC will be 100,000 - anyone want to update that figure?</p>

<p>I’m going to have to side with NAFTA here. In the grand scheme of thinks, $100,000 is not really that much money when you consider the added earning potential that comes from a college degree. I don’t remember the actual numbers but a person with a college degree makes significantly more than one without on average.</p>

<p>Of course, outside of engineering, the difference between UIUC and UIC is much more subtle.</p>

<p>I agree that $100K for a 4 year degree is not an unreasonable cost given the potential return. What I do think is unreasonable is taking out $100K in loans.</p>

<p>$100k for the entire education at UIUC/UIC for undergrad sounds about right, maybe on the high end if you graduate in 4 years. You can’t get $100k subsidized loans as an undergraduate though.</p>

<p>If you have so little money that you would have to take out $100k in loans, chances are FAFSA might actually help you out with grants. FAFSA has a tendency to give ridiculous EFC numbers for the middle class, but it usually does pretty well for people with less money.</p>