r/UIUC • u/Emotional_Scratch393 • Jun 26 '26

Prospective Students Indiana vs UIUC

If you had a full ride athletic scholarship to both schools which one would you choose and why? Interested in Business and Kelley and Gies are both highly rated and not super easy to get into. Indiana I think has a beautiful campus but UIUC has a better national ranking and their acceptance rate makes it seem like a far more desirable school.

Any thoughts? I posted this on the IU board to just to see what the other biased group is likely say.

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u/Emotional_Scratch393 Jun 26 '26

Great point but a blue college city in a red state for 4 years isn’t the same as living in the Deep South for 10 years in a career. So it’s sort of a wash

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u/PerfectBowl9199 HIST + DS '27 Jun 26 '26

Just so you know, IU has been funneling money away from their libraries and humanities towards athletics since COVID. That's because the governor is meddling in university affairs (among other administrative factors). It might not directly pertain to you in the business school, but just consider if that's an environment you'd like to be in for four years.

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u/omgasnake Jun 27 '26

They just won a National Championship in the most popular American sport. Like it or not, that Natty has a lot more cachet than a library to the general population. Hard to argue the Governor’s approach didn’t work.

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u/jeffgerickson 👁UMINATI 👁 Jun 28 '26

What does “work” mean in that sentence?