NUS or Warwick MSc finance for investment banking?
How to chose between NUS and Warwick MSc in finance? Which one is better recognized and considered by IB recruiters as target school?
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Based on the most helpful WSO content, here's what you need to know:
Warwick's Recognition in Investment Banking:
NUS's Recognition in Investment Banking:
Choosing Between NUS and Warwick:
In summary, if your goal is to work in investment banking in London or Europe, Warwick's MSc Finance program is likely the better-recognized and considered a target school by IB recruiters. If you aim to work in Asia, particularly in Singapore, NUS could be a strong contender.
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I am intimately familiar with the recruitment scene in Singapore/HK .
a)NUS (and ntu/smu etc)'s masters programs are generally not target schools for IB recruiting. Undergrad - perhaps a high semi-target, but not at the graduate level.
b) If you're not Singaporean/PR your chances decline dramatically - almost nil.
In my personal experience Warwick graduates place very well at the undergraduate level but less so at the Msc level.
So MSc in finance at Warwick do not give as much advantages as we think? Only for undergraduates at Warwick exists advantage of target school? So if it is master is indifferent between NUS and Warwick?
Both of these options wont help you to get a job in IB (and s&t, pe, etc) in Singapore as a msc fresh graduate
So the choice depends on where I want to stay for my career after graduation? Singapore if I want to stay in Asia and Warwick if I want to stay in Europe?
Gonna be straight with you ; if you're not a Singaporean or PR, it's going to be very very hard for you to find a banking (or any office based) job in Singapore fresh from any masters degree in Singapore.
I'll leave it to the UK based monkeys on this site to comment on the feasibility of getting a job in the UK after a masters degree from Warwick. From the little that Ive seen and heard, it could be difficult for fresh-graduate foreigners to find a job.
Ok thank you very much for your opinion on the Asian situation. Yes indeed I read that finding work in Singapore is difficult for foreigners.
Warwick is at best a semi target at masters level which means generally the only people you see get into IB FT, are those who did IB internships either right before their masters or sometime during undergrad. Basically these people already had the profile and for reasons or another, they got more schooling.
In addition, IB FT hiring (i.e. not via the SA) in London is so depressed at the moment. Might pick up in a couple years time but for now it's hard to just enter FT unless you interned at the bank.
Apologies for hijacking this thread. You seem knowledgeable about the recruitment scene in SG/HK.
Am a local with an offer for NUS MFin, I have a bachelor's from Bocconi university. What are my chances for breaking into an FO role if i were to take the NUS Mfin offer?
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