NEIU is not considered to be a good school. There is only one decent public university in Chicago and that is UIC. The other two are seen poorly.
The University of Illinois system is more or less self supported. The amount of money it receives from the state is a joke. I am constantly getting e-mails/mailings for money. For a while, they were calling almost every other day for money. I know their number and so don’t answer. However, the question remains why is this supposed UIC student calling from a 217 area code. 217 is the area code for central Illinois and all of UIC’s phone numbers are in the 312 area code, but this is a question for another day.
If you go to UIC/UIUC don’t expect any financial aid besides from the state/federal programs.
Until Illinois gets its financial house in order, don’t expect any changes.
All OOS students, or just those in the lowest income levels?
Not that long ago, experiments with Michigan’s net price calculator indicated good financial aid for the lowest income (under mid-$30,000s income) OOS students, but poor financial aid for middle and upper middle income OOS students.
@Nova10
As I posted earlier, IL actually has relatively high state support for higher ed. However, a lot of the money is being used to make up for historic underfunding of pensions for university employees and is therefore not available to pay for current operating expenses.
UMich seems to be quite generous now to OOS students,
All OOS students, or just those in the lowest income levels?
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That’s a good Q. The generous pkgs I’ve seen have been from low income students. It’s weird that Umich would give institutional grants to low income OOS students but not middle income. Why should a 0 EFC kid have all his need met, but not also - say - a $12k EFC kid? Where is the $12k EFC kid supposed to get $55k?
@mom2collegekids, I’m guessing that UMich has it’s current fin aid policy because they only have so much money to give out to OOS and they want to improve their economic diversity. They may feel that they have enough middle-income representation just from their in-state kids (someone with $12K EFC but is in-state for UMich can probably make it work with work-study and loans and UMich may give them grant aid as well) but maybe they don’t feel like they have enough really-low-income representation on campus (and they feel that such diversity is worthwhile to have). Note that UMich’s board is elected by MI citizens, so they would have the interests of MI families foremost in mind (even if the state contribution to UMich these days is paltry). But if donors are earmarking donations for fin aid, and they have enough money to meet need for all MI families, it’s logical that they would spend the extra monies in the demographics that they want to beef up the most.
UofM meets need for instate students. UofM uses the Profile. The uni does have a fundraising campaign going on with one of the intents to increase money available for grants for out of state kids.
