A couple of things to think about:

  • MBB is attainable at both but Kellogg has a stronger pipeline. Something crazy like 1/3 of the class ends up at MBB
  • Investment management recruiting is almost nonexistent at Kellogg. Not to say you can't do it, but there's not a huge alumni presence and career services likely won't be very helpful. Columbia is obviously very good at IM
  • Can't speak to ER, but every bulge bracket bank will recruit on campus at both. Presumably buyside ER is better at Columbia but no idea really
  • Kellogg is better for healthcare and tech (not sure about biopharma specifically)
  • Both schools are very different culturally so I would spend a good amount of time talking to admitted students and figuring out where you hink you'd be a better fit. In general Kellogg feels like a smaller, cozier environment where you'll become more familiar with a large portion of your class while Columbia is larger and more diverse but consequentially more clique-y
 
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BS. last year arguably the highest total number of hires in MBB history had 101/682 of the Kellogg graduating class or slightly less than 15 percent land MBB. Once you take out sponsored students that's probably more like 10 percent. get your fake news out of here.

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/-/media/files...

? I literally said 100 hires, not sure what fake news you are referring to. Kellogg is widely known to have excellent consulting placements, specifically MBB.

Worth mentioning Kellogg’s class size of 2Y MBA is much smaller than 682. This includes 1Y MBAs (vast majority of MBB hires happen from the 2Y MBA classes which is around 500 in size I believe).

Don’t attend Kellogg but did a fair amount of research on the program.

 

The schools are close enough that I'd mostly choose on fit here. Do you want to spend two years in NYC or Evanston? Given you did your undergrad in NYC, you might enjoy living in a college town for two years as its a different experience.

 

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