Re: How important is school reputation for MS in Biostatistics?

I don't think school reputation is a very important consideration here
-- not, at least, one sufficient to outweigh the large tuition
difference.

For a pharmaceutical position, I'd be surprised if anyone cared much
what school you went to. Sometimes it shows more "savvy" to have taken
the practical route by attending a local, less expensive school.

Personally, I think tuitions are unreasonably high, that requiring
extremely large loans for university education is not good, and that
there's something to be said for avoiding high tuitions, when possible,
as an ethical principle -- that is, at least considering the principle
in a overall decision.
--
John Uebersax

.