I have no school spirt in the conventional sense but definitely got a good engineering education from Purdue.
11 year tuition hike freeze as well.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/mitch-daniels-purdue/606772/
I think shopping for school needs to be routed in pragmatism for anyone on any sort of budget. Maybe an obvious statement but still lots of people go for expensive low utility degrees from low value proposition schools.