Me In Deciding What To Do In Life. Bocconi Grad With 2 Years Of Work Ex

So basically, i got a couple of offers from the non targets - Durham, Cass, QMUL for an msc in corporate finance and have worked in corp fin at a 3 ft500 firms. I am interning at LVMH and currently pursuing the iMSM at UIUC? The final diploma doesn't really mention it being an online degree. Tbh my main problem is the lack of work visa in Europe and Bocconi not being well known in my home country, while UIUC has a decent brand recall here. 

The other option is to go to UCD in Ireland, study for a msc in management, get those two years of work search visa to work in the EU and apply to jobs from there. All firms are rejecting me and even the smaller advisory firms tell me that i am a solid candidate but they aren't sponsoring visas atm. So the following are my options-

1) Finish the iMSM at UIUC and try to network to find full time jobs in my country, continuing this internship at LVMH. My boss basically said that I can continue working there for as long as i want on project based work but it is not a full time opportunity. 

2) Go to UCD or Trinity in Ireland and get that 2 year work visa in Ireland. Have a lot of bocconi friends from undergrad working in Dublin at Amazon, Big 4. Those are the roles i would like to target too, 

3) Go to one of the UK schools that i applied to for an msc in finance like Durham, Cass, QMUL, get those 2 years of work visa and network and apply to jobs. Ireland is a bit better in this aspect because of the dicey immigration laws in the UK. I want to be sure this time.

4) Go to SMU Cox in the US and get that 3 years of OPT and apply for jobs in the US. Know a few people from my country who have managed to get EY, AmazonDeloitte in Seattle and Dallas which is very decent considering most companies dont sponsor. A lot of better ranked programs like Nova and BC are not STEM designated and this is. STEM designation is crucial because it allows me to work in the US for 3 years, otherwise i go back with a useless diploma as no one in my country has heard about Nova, BC, Rice or even Vandy. So in my country, all these schools are the same. UIUC, however, still has a decent brandname, so do schools like UMich etc. Even if i get into Duke for the MMS, i wont get to stay on in the US which doesnt make sense as a lot of people have had to come back to my country after dishing out 100s of thousands to these schools. With the STEM designation, I hardly know anyone who came back, regardless of what school they went to be it as shitty as Uni of Southern Florida. 

5) Finish the damn UIUC iMSM, get a 4.0 which i already have, compensate for my average undergrad grades, take the GRE/GMAT, apply to better american schools for a msf next year. This is however a very costly way of getting what i want as being an international will severely disadvantage me due to the number of firms sponsoring being limited. I havent seen any people from my country going into i banking after completing any of the top MSFs so in that sense a bottom ranked MSF that has STEM designation in the US also places at the same corp fin advisory roles that my friends got after a top MSFs

6) Try to find something in my country, prepare for the GMAT and apply next year. Cant find anything in my country tho and it would be a waste of time. Even the most basic jobs require you to have a CFA or CPA. The lateral hiring is non existent. People are struggling to even earn 200 dollars a month and all hiring happens from on campus placements.

7) Try for Europe this year and if i get into Frankfurt school of finance etc then well and good otherwise i am stuck as thats the only school i have applied to in europe and they have their own test. I can also apply to SDA Bocconi ms corporate finance but its expensive, Italy has no jobs and they only give me a year of post study work visa. Same with Esade, IE, etc so these schools seem to be a very bad option for a non EU student with a shitty passport. Most of my friends had to come back from these unis and people i know from IE and Esade after the ms finance still havent been able to find anything permanent, 3 years after graduation. The only continental european school that has value here is HEC. My firms sales woman is from ESSEC so imagine the state of affairs.

 

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