MS Finance: Lubin vs Zicklin vs Stuart vs Bentley

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Hi, my cousin has been accepted at the following schools for MS Finance and needs help making a decision:

Lubin school of business
Pace uni, NYC

Zicklin, Baruch college
City University of New York, NYC

Daniels School
Uni of Denver, Denver

Stuart school of business
Illinois Institute of Tech, Chicago

School of management
Uni of San Fransisco

Bentley University, Boston

I’ve only found the following rankings online:

  1. http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/masters-in-finance-pre-experience-2018 => Bentley is 40, Stuart (IIT) is 42
  2. https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/search?program=top-business-schools&name=&specialty=finance => Only U SF is on the list
  3. https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.bschool.html => Zicklin (CUNY Baruch) is at 204, Stuart is at 436

Unfortunately, this does not appear to be sufficient to make a decision. Cost of attendance is similar and not an issue. Employment prospects after graduation are important.

Would appreciate any thoughts / advice.

Thanks!

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@batpigman - Welcome to the Forum! You should suggest that your cousin ask the universities for their placement information. I can tell you a bit about IIT as I am a faculty member there in physics. Chicago is a good place to find a job in finance. I cannot tell you what the placement rate is for Stuart but there are certainly opportunities.