ChaChaangTang, I think your perception is off. Ross most liekly trumps NU Econ. With the Certificate or MMSS programs, then perhaps placement is as good as Ross, but like the data clearly shows, that is by no means clear. There just isn’t enough of a sample size to draw any real comparison. You seem to think that Management Consulting, IBanking and Tech jobs are best, and I agree for the most part. But when only 7-8 MMSS students each year join the top consulting, IBanking and Tech companies, it is hard to draw any conclusion. Michigan has 70-80 (out of 400 or so) BBA graduates joining those types of firms (Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Citi, Barclays, GS, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Deutschebank, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Cisco, Intel etc…). Proportionately, the numbers may be similar, but a specialty program with just 40 students per class cannot be compared to a major program with 400 students per class.
And let us not assume that the OP will definitely get into one of the Certificate programs. Considering the extremely demanding eligibility requirements for the Certification programs, t is risky at best.