Friend of mine went to one that's around #25. His offer coming out was $35K more than the job he left to attend the program full time. And he moved fields from one he didn't like (healthcare) to one he did (marketing). No rich parents involved. Sample size of 1 FTW!
I agree, especially with the first point. Also, though the program was a lot of work, two years of being back in a college environment is pretty cool for most people (from the people I've met in this program, it's not like the typical ennui- and angst-ridden experience you usually see other types of graduate school portrayed as -- although I guess it would be if you're going into it because you've got no other ideas, i.e. grad school as "the snooze button on the alarm clock of life")
