ND Mendoza vs. UT Business Honors vs. UMich Ross vs. UVA

I am 100% certain I want to pursue investment banking/private equity in the future and am currently making a decision based with that in mind. I am blessed to have great options, and I am ideally looking to place in New York. Which of these options is the best, considering the associated debt with each:

ND-120k debt; Ross-100k debt; UT-60k debt; UVA-100k debt.

Thank you for your advice, and if possible, could you please share your reasoning?

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Depends on your family but if stretching a 30 year career 2k extra per year to be an ND or Ross alum makes sense imo. And no honors does not matter.

 

ross is the only target here realistically for nondiv. if ur diverse ut places anywhere u want but if ur not it’s a struggle. go ross if nondiv otherwise ut

 

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ross is the only target here realistically for nondiv. if ur diverse ut places anywhere u want but if ur not it’s a struggle. go ross if nondiv otherwise ut

Thank you, any reason ross over ND?

 
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I was UT BHP/UVA so take with grain of salt, but I recruited successfully for NY and was able to get IB offer / PE interviews but went another route -- regardless I say this because the class for my firm is primarily ivy + umich, same with peers at most banks, couple ND / Gtown kids here & there, vast majority is ivy & michigan. 

Have friends at most target schools and experience at michigan tends to align closer to exp with kids I hear about at strong ivies surprisingly, vs exp recruiting at ND doesn't sound too great from 2 peers, probably still better than UT / UVA / NYU tiers of schools but michigan is extremely solid, wouldn't pass up the oppt, imo umich is closer to hypsw than ut/uva is to umich

 

This isn't true anymore, these past couple years UT places just as many non-diverse as diverse in New York. We're a target for practically every top bank now

 

definitely disagree -- juts as many nondiverse as diverse is just not true, but the biggest thing is difference in outcome between nondiv students not in WSFM; compare that to outcomes for students at michigan who aren't in relevant feeder orgs and its truly night and day

 

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