Given the world's turbulent economic climate these days it'll probably be far safer to opt for the modular route over the integrated, least of all because you'll be in complete control of your spend. You'll obviously need to do a fair bit more research in order to find the better training establishments but IMHO it should work out just as quick and a good deal cheaper particularly for those who can afford to take a year out to complete everything in a sensible but progressive way, mix and match your course to where specific expertise areas lie would be my humble advice!
For what its worth I frequently fly the line with new pilots coming from both integrated and and modular training backgrounds and I have to say I have not been able to identify one group over another as being better trained - that could have something to do with the company's selection process being very robust though!