<p>@SoDoMojo - What majors are you speaking about? 2012 Businessweek (Undergrad Business) had PSU at $55K and UIUC at $53,100 for starting salaries. We could talk numbers forever and I don’t need nor care to do further research but you made a broad statement “definitely superior academically (overall) to PSU” without any facts to support your conclusion. At that point the only things mentioned by the OP were GPA and SAT scores and that is was the easiest school to get into of the top 50. Both PSU and UIUC are very good schools, and I’ll leave it at that. :)</p>