<p>The discussion is not about college experience in terms of social scene. Wisconsin, in terms of the amount of biotech firms pales compared to those in the San Diego, Boston, and Bay Area. </p>
<p>You don't necessarily need to go to schools in these areas but they give you a huge advantage in terms of working in this industry because of their proximity, therefore, if that is your goal then it would certainly give you a wide varierty of work experience. </p>
<p>Academic research experience is NOT the same as Industry job experience.</p>
<p>You still have not answered what makes you an authority in this field as I have asked you multiple times. Second, do you have any first hand knowledge or experience besides some articles that primarily came from the Universities website? So far you haven't.</p>
<p>As for future grad programs, going to a name school helps get you into other name school grad programs. Getting into a top program a decent GPA, GRE and solid letters of recommendation is what gets you in. But, a Ph.D in essence is an academic not a professor degree. If your goal is industry, what gets you the job is still skills. And as I've said before, if your skills don't match what the company is looking for then it doesn't matter. They don' just hire you because you went to MIT. </p>
<p>As for the master's biotechnology, their program is still pales in comparison to KGI. It still is missing many big concepts as I've discussed above.</p>