<p>I'm torn between these two. I am intersted in business for sure, and Kelley is definitley superior to whatever Madison has to offer, but madison has a great economics program. I feel pretty guilty about this, but UW has a ton more prestige. I need some advice. Ultimately I believe the place that will get me a better Ibanking job or land me in a good MBA program is the place to go. So, what do you guys think? Thanks</p>
<p>If you can get into Wisconsin, then you can get a 6-7K/year scholarship at Indiana. It would then be saving around 24-28K to go to IU. I applied to both, got into both, and chose IU. It's better for business, and honestly, it's not that much of a difference in prestige. IU has a peer assessment of 3.8, Wisconsin, 4.2. It's a noticable difference, but employers aren't going to hold it against you. You aren't going to get any different oppurtunities at Wisconsin than you will at Kelley. For I-Banking, it has much better placement, they have I-Banking clubs, and recruiters come on campus and offer internships. Also, visit both campuses, especially if finances aren't a concern.</p>
<p>yazzz: I recommend try to get some numbers, i.g. IB firms coming to campus and # of accepted jobs, where grads go for MBA etc, with career services at both schools. Also worth e-mailing the IB clubs at both schools. Here's the one for Wisc: <a href="http://www.wiscibc.com/IBC/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wiscibc.com/IBC/index.html</a></p>
<p>Wisconsin has some good publicity lately for the number of alums running S&P 500 and specialized MBA programs. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.bus.wisc.edu/news/0157.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.bus.wisc.edu/news/0157.asp</a>
<a href="http://www.bus.wisc.edu/news/0159.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.bus.wisc.edu/news/0159.asp</a></p>
<p>I second A2Wolves6 suggestion. Try to visit both schools before making a decision. Will you buy a car (in this case, a really expensive one) without first test drive it? Go to the one that you believe you are mostly likely to excel because school reputation alone won't carry you far.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. That bit about the number of Fotune 500 CEOs and tieing with Harvard, is really interesting and I had no I idea. Also, the info about the investment club is great. That really works for Madison.
I've heard that IU has 27% of students place in IBanking. Is that true? Anyone know the stats for wisconsin?
Something different.
Are there any prominent faculty and is Kelley a place to network? NYU has really trumpeted the fact that Networking is great at Stearn so I was wondering.
Thanks</p>
<p>I don't know about the faculty connections, although I do know that Business Week named Indiana's faculty #1 in the nation, judging on teaching though. Marc Cuban is an alumnus (Dallas Mavericks owner), same with John Chambers (Cisco Systems). They have an alumni network over 77,000.</p>
<p>yazzz: I seriously believe that both Kelley and Wisconsin are good stepping stone to your goals. Bear in mind that IB and top MBA programs are highly competitive, so-so performance in either program won't cut it. Let me emphasis again the importance to choose the best environment where you can honestly do <em>very</em> well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, I plan on doing well! Probably at Kelley!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I don't think Madison takes students directly into business so you have a risk and maybe you can't strart studying business right away.</p>