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In at Notre Dame's IR PhD Program but also got into Chicago's CIR with half tuition. Both are amazingly great fits, but Chicago would mean I'm taking on a good probably 50k worth of debt. What should I do?????

Hi! This is my first post on this forum, but I've been keeping up with everyone's decisions. I received an offer to Notre Dame's IR program and I'm concerned that I won't find an academic job considering it's not a top 20 school (is it even top 30?). But they say they're supportive of landing people jobs in the policy community too and I realized, nobody ever talks about the forecast of the policy/gov job market. So how does that one look considering finding a job as an academic is long shot?