| Illinois is better in reputation. You will probably get a bigger WoW factor if you say you went to UIUC Engineering. If i'm not mistaken, while Purdue and Illinois are both large schools, the demographics are different, look to see which crowd you like more.
Purdue ranks well in USNEWS, and I'm sure produces very good engineers, but I'm almost certain that given a choice between the two, financials aside, that over 70% of the people would probably choose UIUC. |