How to break into IBD in US as a student from mainland China
I am a student from one of the top universities in China, and gonna study at CBS for a Msc degree (not MBA) in New York this fall.
I have interned at 2 investment banks (including SA at CICC) and a pan-Asia buyout fund, and I really want to break into IBD in US. But it’s my understanding that the banks in US do not take the students who graduated from China’s universities like myself.
So I really need some guidance or advice on this, please feel free to shed some light.
They don‘t take masters
Thanks. Is there any exception? There is less activity in China markets and we cannot see upside case of the future.
The only exception I have seen is Sales and Trading. Banking would be really hard for masters
So what about getting an IBD job in HK and then an MBA in the US, does it works for landing on US IBD?
Doable. But more difficult in recent years.
This may not be an option, but I would hold off on the Masters and do a US MBA program in a few years. You can then be on the internship timeline vs having to get lucky coming from a more unstructured Masters program.
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If you haven’t lived in the US at all (or internationally for that matter in an international/American school) culturally it will be very tough for you in general as US offices are very “fratty” compared to international offices.
You can try to recruit but mind that there are visa issues + cultural issues + communication issues (especially if you don’t sound “American” or have a fluent english accent) as networking plays a big role.
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