one is over 70k and the other is 57,000
I say the answer is NYU is the one over $70K and Michigan is about $57K. Did I answer your question right?
LOLLL i was asking which one should i choose?
sorry if that wasn’t clear
Attending undergraduate classes might be a hook into the graduate programs. Michigan has over 100 programs ranked in the top 10 in the nation. The undergraduate ranking is doubtless more than a bit deflated: undergraduates share many of the same professors as the graduate students, many of the same facilities, and have access to meaningful research opportunities. Suggesting that there is the current large spread between undergraduate and graduate rankings is pretty silly.
Well NYU is private, UMich public. In New York you have many more options for internships etc. The Ann Arbor area is definitely not as well connected as New York. For example, I live in the DC area but will be committing to Michigan soon for biological anthropology. DC has the Smithsonian system, NIH, NIST, the federal gov’t… More connections. NY will be similar. I’m picking Michigan for other reasons, but you get the idea. Can you afford 70K a year? I’m guessing NYU has better financial aid than UM but definitely compare the costs of attendance and reason if X amount of dollars makes sense at a public university as compared to a private. Consider things like climate too. Contact people at both universities, if you can. Good luck!
I chose Umich over NYU years ago. I’ve been very happy with my decision since.
NYU does not have better financial aid than Michigan. I fact, NYU is known for its poor financial aid. IMO NYU is not worth the extra cost unless money is not an issue and you are absolutely dying to live in NYC.
What is your planned major? Michigan is going to have the edge in most areas.
@pencilpen7 It is NYU that has the poorer financial aid. Michigan meets full “demonstrated need” for all in-state students and for a growing number of OOS students; most of this aid is in the form of grants. NYU grants aids to those whom it wants to attract; the remainder get gapped. So NYU is fine if you don’t need aid; are amount the select few that get good FA; or you like loans.
@pencilpen7 Internship opportunity depends on major. I am sure Ann Arbor area has more internship opportunity in automobile industry than NY area. In addition, connection can be through alumni instead geographical location. UMich has great career fairs and plenty of Fortune 500 companies come every year.
Internship opportunities have little to do with location. Companies recruit on “target” campuses across the country. Michigan happens to be a “target” for leading firms across most industries.
Not really true. Depends on the company. There are plenty of companies that prefer to do all of their recruiting around the New York area because its easier. Given the same resume and qualifications of someone from someone in NYU vs UMich, its easier to ask for an onsite interview to the kid who only needs to take a bus to the office rather than a plane.
For the bigger companies. it matters to a smaller extent.
One of the main reasons, I was able to get an internship after freshmen and sophomore year in Ann Arbor was because I had a reliable car and my qualifications were good enough to reach the threshold even though I wasn’t their best candidate
My son is a freshman at Mich. He has gone to recruiting/informational events with Citi, Morgan Stanley and others in last few weeks. He has one with RBC and Goldman in the next 10 days.
These are on campus. They come to Michigan as Alexandre mentioned.
If we extrapolate this a bit, you would rank NYU over half the Ivies including Yale; and most of the LACs for internship opportunities. Right?
There are more than 2,000 companies including all the majors that come to recruit Michigan engineers. I doubt if you would get even half of that opportunities at NYU. And Michigan’s real strengths are its faculty and alumni (graduate alum included) networks all over the world.
you’re extrapolating completely wrong. No one said NYU is better than Yale. NYU-Stern is at best better than Brown.
I was referring to post #5 which claims that NYU’s location in NYC gives it an edge with internship opportunities. There was also the reference “DC has the Smithsonian system, NIH, NIST, the federal gov’t… More connections” for biological anthropology.
And you were disputing Alexander’s claim that because “There are plenty of companies that prefer to do all of their recruiting around the New York area because its easier… For the bigger companies. it matters to a smaller extent.” I just gave you an example that for engineering, Michigan students have much more opportunities.
Michigan students are not limited to internship opportunities in Ann Arbor. For example, most of the 2,000+ companies recruiting at Michigan Engineering are not in Ann Arbor or Michigan.
And no one mentioned Stern or I-bank in this thread,
Michigan is an excellent school but anyone who thinks it provides more internship opportunities than NYU is delusional. There are lots of benefits of being located in NYC than NYU students realize and Michigan students don’t.
With that said both are great schools for recruiting opportunities as both are very highly regarded
For internships during the school year maybe, but since most internships are done over the summer, there is little advantage to being a student in NYC. There are plenty of students from all over the country who descend on NYC every summer. Just as NYC firms recruit outside of the city for new hires, so do they invite interns from everywhere. The same goes for DC or any other big city.
Since you are a student at Stern, what information are you using to determine that NYU provides more benefits for internships than Michigan?
I know many UMich students did intern all over the world too. For large firms, they don’t care if it is local or out of state. For smaller companies, there are regional advantage. However, considering the number of students and school in NY area, I don’t see how it would be an advantage being local. Again, t depends on the field/major.