One of the best ROI in the whole country

Experience during the program

Wisconsin's bread and butter is CPG. The school has a lot of opportunities if you are willing to go that front. A lot of my classmates got placed in CPG without too much hassle. But CPG doesn't hire internationals. Real estate also has a good program where they get to manage an investment fund.

STEM-designated specs are Supply Chain and Tech. Intuit is a big company that comes to campus to recruit PMs and PMMs but it stops there for internationals since COVID.

WSB doesn't market itself good enough. First of all, the school hands out very generous scholarship packages combined with TA opportunities that waive tuition fees. But they do not market this enough to attract better talent. ROI is out of the sky because of this. People graduate none-to-little debts. Secondly, there was an incident a couple of years back when Dean tried to shut down the FT MBA program. The alumni and company backlash prevented this from happening but this hurt school too much as you can still see the remnants of this event when you google Wisconsin MBA. I think the school is well-connected with industry with great recruiting outcomes so I don't see this happening in near future.

The cohort size is close to 100 and it's a very tight-knit community. The location is a downside because of the size of the city. But Madison is a fun, safe and progressive little city for its size. The winters are cold and long but the weather is not so dreary. You will have plenty of cold, crisp weather with blue skies.

Internationals, you might get good scholarships because you increase the stats of the incoming class. But be aware that you might need to do most of the work on your own. Domestics, if you are fixed with CPG, then you are in good hands. If you want to diversify out of it, again you need to do your own work. Still, I'd say school definitely punches above its ranking in terms of base salary averages and ROI is one of the best in the whole country.

Overall BSchool experience (5.0)
Schools contribution (4.0)
Classmates rating (4.0)

Strengths of the program:

Student body, diversity
Culture & Student Support
Specialization in a particular area (e.g. Finance, Consulting, Healthcare, etc)

Best fit at this program:

Finance
Marketing
Tech
Management

Can be improved:

Curriculum, Classes, Professors
Location
Brand/Ranking