Business school as a leveraged buy out

I’m thinking of going to the US to pursue an MBA but haven’t saved up much for it at the moment. If I apply next year max I will have saved is £30-40 with maybe another £20k from family.

Most people would say it’s stupid to take on $100k debt for an MBA, but considering the ROI is it reasonable to compare the personal borrowing to debt used for an LBO.. like instead of Debt/EBITDA forecasting debt to income afterwards? Like if I went straight to NY with some prior corp banking experience, could be safe to assume $150k after b school. Minus 110k for rent, living expenses etc. and Debt/EBITDA would be around 2.5x with Interest coverage around 5x. Those are still very safe levels for an LBO imo

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the difference is that the performance of an LBO doesn't impact your base salary, but here it does, and it can get pretty ugly if you end up in a bad job market, similar to now. Even ending in in NY, a HCOL, which would be the ideal case (harder to get = less chances you'll get) would pull you down to a pretty narrow budget for at least 1 year. 

Isn't a better comparison analyzing the same scenario in UK vs. US and seeing which one brings higher % ROI or lower Debt/EBITDA? This comparison will show you that you don't really want to take decision based on % when cash amount is maybe more important in such scenarios...

I even find it a bit stupid to analyze such decision like an LBO lol like you have 40 other sources of revenue that can bring you out from chapter 7 in case this "LBO" ends up nasty 

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