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In my mind, yes. It's tempting to have school covered and come out with no debt, but I think the gap here is just too big. Taking the longview, Ross will have better recruiting opportunities right after graduation and will provide a much stronger network as you progress in your career. Ross places well in Chicago, I'm not sure about Wisconsin. With Kellogg, Booth, and Ross in the region, I'd imagine top companies in Chicago don't do much recruiting there (this is just an assumption, someone feel free to prove me wrong).

Compare the employment reports to see what the differences are in opportunities post-MBA:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/MBA/MBA_Empl_rep.pdf
http://bus.wisc.edu/mba/your-career/job-placement-salary-stats

Another turnoff for me for the Wisconsin deal is the 15 hours of work a week - that's time you could be spending recruiting/networking/participating in clubs/enjoying life.

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I agree with the overall trend of this thread. I tend to view schools in competitive clusters based on companies that recruit there and consensus rankings. Within a cluster I think people should go with the school they fit best with, regardless of actual ranks and at times money can make a difference. However, I would not put Ross and Wisconsin in the same school grouping.

If you are recruiting for IB, I would say that Ross gives you the opportunity to go to New York (or anywhere) whereas at Wisconsin you likely will have to be in Chicago, where frankly there are much fewer opportunities for banking, since Wisconsin is a much more regional business school. Like people said, you will also be competing with people from Booth and Kellogg that want to stay in Chicago, as well as people from other schools that can make a solid case for going to Chicago (i.e. they are from there originally). Ross puts you on equal footing in Chicago whereas Wisconsin does not, and opens up more national opportunities.

I did IB recruiting this past fall in New York and at multi-school networking events hosted by companies I did encounter folks from Ross...I did not see anyone from Wisconsin to be honest. That's not to say that you can't get NYC IB from Wisconsin, but I would pay special attention to the employment report and even try to reach out to alumni to gauge the feasibility. Based on my brief knowledge of the schools, it seems a much more difficult task from Wisconsin.

Just a current Wisconsin student chiming in here, I have full scholi due to project assistantship as well and 13 hrs is overestimated. It's some kind of requirement to call it 1/3 of a 40hr work week, really it's much less. And it's something to put on resume to brag about. Plus might want to think about being able to freely choose what you want to do when you graduate and not on chasing the paycheck to make payment on that 100k debt you incurred.