<p>M&T grads tend to be business focused. A decent part of the appeal is when private equity firms and such go recruiting at Penn, they say “oh alright you survived taking 7 classes a semester you can probably take anything we throw at you”. A decent amount of them go into tech businesses and startups but I don’t know anyone who’s going into the medical industry tbh. I mean, you graduate M&T and you can go do whatever the heck you want, and a Wharton degree is a super good start for going into industry, but you’re going to be taking a bunch of classes that don’t really have anything to do with what you want to if you do end up choosing healthcare. It’s going to be a lot harder to pull that 3.5 for medschool if you’re dual degreeing too. </p>
<p>Workload, M&T will probably harder.
Social life, probably equalish.
Internships, probably Columbia because it’s closer to most of the NY medical stuff you’d want to be working in. M&T is gong to be a more balanced education and have better relations with finance firms though.
Research, probably equalish. Penn’s CBE is pretty good but so is Columbia engineering.</p>
<p>Basically if you’re positive you’re doing medical stuff, go Columbia. If you’re more open to other stuff, do M&T.</p>