HELP!: CMU Tepper vs. NYU Stern vs. USC Marshall

[kMz]

<p>TEPPER:
- Cost of attendance = about $20,000/year
- Pittsburgh location
- #6 top business school (according to US News)
- Excellent job placement
- Poor social life supposedly?</p>

<p>STERN:
- Cost of attendance = about $15,000/year
- NYC location
- #5 top business school (according to US News)
- Excellent job placement
- Bustling city life
- Apartment-style dorms
- Great study abroad programs</p>

<p>MARSHALL:
- Cost of attendance: Free! (Financial Aid + NMF Presidential Scholarship)
- LA location
- #10 top business school (according to US News)
- 2 hours away from home
- Excellent job placement in SoCal; great networking
- Perfect weather (this is pretty important; I was born in LA and lived in Cali my whole life)</p>

<p>Any comments/input that would make it easier for me to decide on one school would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.</p>

[ineo42]

<p>um…lets see
cmu- $80000
NYU- $60000
USC- $0</p>

<p>what better way to start off in business than with no debt? you will learn pretty much the same things anywhere you go- put the $80000 for cmu towards grad school or invest it or something. Grad school is where rankings truly count- USC has just as good a rep as nyu and cmu. I would say go there. Unless money isn/t an issue- then cmu- they are a “bigger name” school than nyu and usc. just my opinion i guess.</p>

[WC1001]

<p>I say Stern. One of the best in the nation plus its in NYC ;)</p>