<p>Neither the UMich nor MSU analogies are appropriate - academically, UM falls somewhere in between the two, and in every other respect they’re just not comparable.</p>
<p>UM is a pretty good school academically, but depending on what you intend to do after you graduate the U of Michigan has the potential to open doors that UMiami does not. If those are the kinds of things you want to be doing - mostly big business - then Michigan is the place to be. But between UMiami and MSU there won’t be too much of a difference there, though I think that UMiami has the edge reputation-wise, for whatever that’s worth.</p>