Transferring to Australia or EU for IB/PE?

I'm currently at a semi-target school in the US but I absolutely hate the school and life here overall and want to leave. I know that long term I do not want to work in the US so I've been thinking about transferring to either the Netherlands (RSM) , Australia (USyd/UNSW), Paris (HEC?), Italy (Bocconi), or maybe London. I'm currently a freshman in my first semester of school but by the end of this semester i'll have two internships on my resume (one IB and one PE) so I think I'm in a pretty solid spot. I was wondering could I still do IB/PE if I were to transfer overseas even as a US Citizen (I heard sponsors are difficult to find sometimes)? 

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Just be realistic, the US is the easiest market to get into IB + study workload is light

If you have already got two solid internships you should stay there and get into top BB for internal transfer/ lateral hire

Also, you won’t have much social life as a student in the EU when compared to the US + the finance sector is much smaller, so there are fewer opportunities and you have to be a native speaker for it

 

You could do an exchange/ summer school to experience the culture and life

If you want to work in finance, stay in the US for the brand name and exposure

Work 2/3 years to save up money for an EU/ AUS MBA and go there

You could easily get into the megafund after

 
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