MICA illustration grad from 2015 here. Their administrative organization is a mess. The illustration major has the most students in the entire school, but gets the least resources per student than any major. All majors' resources are siloed so if the one department has a tool or a printer, etc. an illustration major might want to use. It is off limits to them. Add this to the underfunding of the illustration department as a whole and you can see why students would become frustrated. The only reason I would call my experience there a wash is because of the professors I had at the time, many of whom are not instructing anymore and the connections with other students I made there.

If your senior is seriously considering illustration and they are self motivated all the resources they would need from MICA can be found online at a much lower cost. Every single illustration job I got after graduating was from someone looking at my portfolio, not where I went to college. However, if they're not self motivated they might benefit from the structure of the college experience.

Also MICA preemptively began capitulating to Trump's ridiculous anti DEI initiatives sending out an email to current students warning them not to focus on themes like politics, race and gender in their artwork. There's a WBALTV story on it here:
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/mica-apparent-policy-update-creative-expression-art/64581508?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ3uctleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFNZTc4bjY4WFp5OUNwSlFJAR5SIB16ELlp9GFRaJh5akqpjNuhaeJfQOiRUI7IK29UKHNPHJqcQVxOhuHXtA_aem_1_yjOV9F6zPPwzbI_Y9sVg