MSc Finance School List for IB/startups (from prev CS major)

I am an international student at the University of Arizona graduating in 2027 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science. My goal is to break into investment banking after completing a Master's in Finance, with private equity or growth-stage investing as longer-term interests.

A bit of background: I started college as a CS major and switched into Economics during my second year. Because of that, I missed the traditional freshman finance recruiting pipeline and many of the early finance clubs and opportunities. Despite the switch, I am still graduating on time and have built finance experience through internships rather than campus recruiting.

My resume - Over the past three summers, I've interned in investment banking, private equity, M&A advisory at a Big 4 firm.

also doing AI research and part of endowment fund under professor

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Work in USA / UK.

Essec is probably out even bocconi 
just keeping HEC Paris as its no 1

indian national eb 5 on the way

 
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For UK LSE LBS Oxbridge top and HEC, Bocconi, hsg, escp, Imperial etc as solid choices. Don't go by qs ranking lol. I think with your experience its more about being in London itself and having the visa.

But go for the USA tbh, and don't look back 

 

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