University of Minnesota Twin Cities VS. University of Wisconsin Madison

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<p>Hi, everyone!</p>

<p>I have admitted to University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN) as a transfer student major in Applied Economics in for Spring 2011. And, on the other hand, there is a pretty high possibility to admit to University of Wisconsin Madison (UW-Madison) also major in Applied Economics. </p>

<p>Now I am confused about can anyone give me some useful information about those universities' applied economics. I am an international student, if I choose UW-Madison, my tuition and fee is 8000 D more than that in UMN, and I am not so rich so that I can never mind the tuition. So far, the major factor I consider is the money and living area in both universities. UMN locate in Twin Cities, there definitely are a lot of chance to get Internship and different lifestyles. However, for UW-Madison, which locate in a small city compared to TC. So... </p>

<p>I don't know about it.........can anyone give me some suggestions or information about those two universities? Thanks</p>

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<p>This may help…or not…</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-wisconsin-madison/947075-umn-uw-madison.html?highlight=minnesota[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-wisconsin-madison/947075-umn-uw-madison.html?highlight=minnesota&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>hey I am an international spring transfer too…!
I am majoring in Chem E.
I personally, would choose UMinn over UWisc anyday,coz its ranked higher in ChemE,plus its cheaper.But it depends on your program I guess.</p>

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<p>I am international student, too. And I chose the U for $10000 cheaper, bigger city and better business school (for my major) :)</p>

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<p>UMinn and UWis are both ranked very highly in Chem E ( Both Top 10) so the choice should be based on other things.
UW Chem E majors had a higher average starting salary at $62,074 vs $60,266 for UMinn. </p>

<p>UW offers more of a well rounded college experience. It also appears to have more firms recruiting on campus</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ccse.umn.edu/corp_interviews.html[/url]”>http://www.ccse.umn.edu/corp_interviews.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Engineering Career Services – College of Engineering – UW–Madison”>Engineering Career Services – College of Engineering – UW–Madison;

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<p>Barrons, your UMN list was companies that INTERVIEW on campus. Your UW list was just general recruiting. There’s a big difference there.</p>

<p>And FYI the OP was referring to Applied Econ. not ChemE.</p>

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<p>No, those are on campus interviews and job fairs with job fair noted by *. There is even a note for one company that has interest but did not come to campus. The UM list also lists career fair and on campus interviews.</p>

<p>There were several posts on CE. I just responded.</p>

<p>The Top 10 AE (AKA Ag Econ)schools are listed alphabetcially as: </p>

<p>The list
of top ten schools in agricultural economics he
cites (the number of students completing a PhD
degree in 1997 are in parentheses) include
UC-Berkeley (16), UC-Davis (7), Cornell (9),
Illinois (4), Iowa State (10), Maryland (7),
Minnesota (13), North Carolina State(5), Purdue
(6) and UW Madison (6).</p>

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<p>Source of Top 10 AE</p>

<p><a href=“http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.5849&rep=rep1&type=pdf[/url]”>http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.5849&rep=rep1&type=pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And another pretty similar one</p>

<p><a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20071013165036/www.econphd.net/rank/rresag.htm[/url]”>http://web.archive.org/web/20071013165036/www.econphd.net/rank/rresag.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>UW 7 and UMN 8, it does not make any difference.
However, $10000 tuition gap for 1 year times 4 years equals to $40000 IS a huge difference for INTERNATIONAL students.</p>