Dilemma! Columbia or UPenn?

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Dilemma...

I was accepted offer of admissions to the MS programs in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University and at University of Pennsylvania. I'm good at Solid Mechanics.

Getting high income and high salary job in industry or in finance and consulting is my goal. My plan is that some years down the road I will go for MBA in Harvard Business School.

Which one should I choose?

UPenn

Pros:

1.For career: "One university" policy allows me to take courses in Wharton!

2.Ranking: little Higher than that of Columbia

UPenn : No.7 for colleges ; No.29 for Mechanical Engineering

Columbia: No.8 for colleges; No.32 for Mechanical Engineering(according to "US News & World Report")

3.Ivy League

Cons:

1.The acceptance rate is much more higher than that in Columbia!!!

2.Reputation: Not as famous as Columbia around the World!!!

3.For career: not strong in engineering, its school of engineering has only a short history

4.City: a Boring city ! Expecially when comparing to New York!

Columbia

Pros:

1.For career: the university helps every Master student in Mecanical Engineering to get an internship and maybe a job...

2.Oppotunities: there are much more interviews in New York

3.Ivy Leagure;Small Program where student-faculty ratio is about 7 to 1, therefore professors have more time to "deal with me"

4.Faculty members in the department have received outstanding Teaching Awards.

Cons:

1.Not strong in engineering either

2.New York is wonderful but it is also dangerous and so wonderful that can easily distract people from their study.

Could you give me some advice?