<p>I'm Rooting For Michigan!!!</p>
<p>I agree with Alexandre regarding Business School -- Wisconsin and Michigan are not really in the same league regarding their MBA programs. With regard to the undergraduate business major, I think that Madison does a bit better there. But even regarding their undergraduate programs, Michigan has the edge. </p>
<p>In terms of football -- hands down Camp Randall and the Badger experience is much better than the Big House. As a huge college football fan, one of the things I was really looking forward to was getting season tickets at Michigan. I simply could not believe that 110,000 people could be that quiet or that the atmosphere could be that dead. Biggest disappointment of our whole Michigan experience. Plus, Lloyd Carr does less with top 5 recruiting classes than any other coach in the nation. Worst big game coach in the Big Ten -- can't beat Ohio State and can't win a bowl game. To add insult to injury, I am a Michigan Fan! Am I stupid or what?</p>
<p>Sometimes even objective is wrong.
UW Fall 2006 Enrollment</p>
<p>Enrollment, faculty, staff and alumni (Fall 2006) Group Number
Enrolled students 41,466
Undergraduate students 28,462
Freshmen 5,373
Sophomores 6,353
Juniors 7,390
Seniors 9,346
Graduate students 8,832
Professional students 2,579
Audiology 29
Law 892
Medicine and Public Health 801
Veterinary Medicine 322
Pharmacy 535
Special students 1,593</p>
<p>When you compare FTE undergrad enrollmet the numbers are closer yet--UW 26,701, UM 25,078</p>
<p>Also remember UM's UG business school is half the size of UW's allowing it to be more selective but your chance of getting into it is also much less.</p>
<p>UW also just got approval to increase UG business tuition $1000 in order to increase faculty pay, hire 7 more profs, add advisors and increase financial aid. They will start a freshman direct admiit program in 2008. The school is improving every year.</p>
<p>joshua and barrons,
My source for the data is USNWR. If you believe that the data presented is wrong or incomplete, please direct your comments to them. As for the presentation of data, I make no claims to which information to use. I see this data as a starting point for making general comparisons and perhaps identifying areas that merit further research. Everybody has their own way of interpreting the data and everyone has plenty of other individual considerations that they make in choosing a college.</p>
<p>For U Wisconsin fans, I suggest you expand the athletic conversation to include mens basketball.</p>
<p>I was just showing that even what is presented as factual data is subject to interpretation and should not be acccepted as gospel--even when it comes from US News. I was not impugning your cutting and pasting but sending a letter to US News does not help the people here get correct info.</p>
<p>Both are awesome schools. Michigan has a slightly better academic reputation. In my opinion, Madison is arguably the best college town in the country. Ann Arbor is still pretty darn good though. UW-Madison is such a fun school. If UW-M is cheaper, then Id definitely go there. The only downside is that both schools have really bad weather.</p>
<p>Reading this thread has reminded me about why I left this website in the first place: trolls, and in particular, Michigan trolls.</p>
<p>I'm about to go into my senior year at Wisconsin. I was told as a HS senior that I should take on 50K in debt and attend Michigan over Madison. I'd be 50K in debt and in the same "place" (high GPA, met a lot of fun/interesting students, about to apply to grad schools). Go sit in a class, walk around the union, or whatever you see yourself doing on campus. Using CC to deliberate requires one, and I mean ONE statistic: US News rank. Go search other threads. No matter what the question, whatever school has the higher US News rank is trolled upon by the masses.</p>
<p>Transfer, I think the general consensus on this thread, regardless of which university we support, has been that both are excellent and that the op should make a decision based on fit. I actually discussed cost in my first post on this thread. I definitely agree that taking out a loan of 50K to attend any university (Michigan included) makes no sense. But the OP has not mentioned taking out a loan one way or the other.</p>