I heard the same about 'Loyola U.' about being expensive -- and did some info gathering  while hunting for grad school couple years ago. So my impression was -- Loyola U - fairly dear; decent school in terms of ranking and all; selective admission process etc.. !! But it turned out - it was extremely affordable, and would accept students with poor past performances as well. One of the kids going to Grad school with me ended up with couple of C's in his first semester, got awarded with GPA  <3.0 - so the school didn't want to retain him - he then went ahead and applied to Loyola, and attended there with 3/4th of what he was paying in the past, and had all his courses transferred. 

So, might worth takin' a crack at it @NagIOS.

BTW NagIOS, a Network Monitoring tool.. eh -- Open Source..  Saw a recently published book on it  :) !!  

Happy School Hunting!

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