<p>I had the luck of being accepted into the MS&E graduate program at Stanford and the MEM graduate program at Duke, both 1 year engineering management programs, and with approx. the same tuition cost. My question is which one is best for someone who's thinking of going into consulting or something along those lines, and who is mainly concerned about the return on my graduate school investment.
Being a foreigner I don't have much feel for the status of the various colleges inside the states and I'm thoroughly confused by the various college ranking lists where I've seen lists with either one of the schools ranked higher. I have a feeling that Stanford is considered better, but not really "how much" or in other words, would a possible higher starting salary for a Stanford student offset the higher living cost of living in CA compared to NC?
I would very much like any input on this or in general what you think of the two schools and/or their engineering management programs!
Thank you so much for your inputs!</p>