<p>*Hypothetical but want to hear opinions</p>
<p>NYU Stern for 90,000 loans
Emory Goizueta for 25,000 loans
Indiana Kelley for 20,000 loans
Villanova School of Business for 15,000 loans
Fordham LC Gabelli for no debt
Loans for after 4 years.
What is the best investment to break into Consulting?</p>
<p>NYU Stern & Indiana Kelley (Only the Kelley IB Workshop) are the best for IB. </p>
<p>If you can get into Kelley’'s workshop that would be the best bet since a lot of those students will get great IB jobs, but the program is like limited to 30 students I believe. </p>
<p>In General, Stern gives you the best value - If you hustle hard (network, meet people for coffee, and do internships) you are pretty much guaranteed a high paying job (IB or AM, or HF or whatever else there is). </p>
<p>Stern’s reputation and location will get you the interviews you want its up to you to do well in them.</p>
<p>@qwertyzxc Unless i’m misreading his question “What is the best investment to break into Consulting?”, he doesn’t want to be an investment banker, he wants to be a consultant. Which from my research and experience, your actual job experience is far more important than a degree from any university.</p>
<p>Yes, I meant to break into management consulting out of Undergrad.</p>
<p>Honestly, (and i could be very wrong) I would think it would be near impossible to be a management consultant just out of undergraduate without a background of management experience. I mean even students with management degrees rarely get hired as management without experience. It would be very difficult to convince a customer (business owner(s)) that you know more than their managers do about managing without experience.</p>
<p>With this all having been said, I would recommend whichever one of those is the most local to you or more specific to the area you wish to work in, ignoring Stern unless you are set on working for big business companies; $90k for an undergraduate is insane IMO.</p>
<p>Any top school will set up up nicely for management consulting: the best bet out of all those schools is Stern. Big 4 consulting arms heavily recruits and there are always a handful of people that become summer associates at MBB (mostly BCG because they do resume drops). </p>
<p>Other consulting firms that I see do resume drops are OW, LEK, Monitor, Parthenon, and a couple more. </p>
<p>Schools to focus on for consulting recruiting would be schools like Duke, Harvard, Wharton, Yale</p>