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Well, the only problem with St Gallen is that it is in Switzerland. So, as an international student you still would not have rights to live and work in the EU. Therefore, graduating from there and applying for jobs in Europe, you'll still need to find firms that sponsor (which absolutely exists, but this will limit you to the big dogs, BBs and MBB, and maybe some others, but unsure who else).

Now, degree-wise, I believe econ > maths for working in IB/consulting, because the maths you'll need is minimal and econ will easily be more than enough, but with econ you'll also get the training in understanding what the numbers and trends in industries and in the economy mean.

If you are from SG, I might agree with the opinion of doing SG + exchange at St Gallen, and if you can take econ/finance classes at NUS (which is a great university), then you should be covered. Afterward, you could either apply and start working for BBs or for MBB in SG and then transfer to Europe/US later on. I would see this as the path of least resistance. As I said, doing St Gallen is great, but work visas will be an issue upon graduation (I'm not 100% on this, but like 90%, because I doubt there exist any fast track EU work visa for international students in CH, but it is not impossible). You could find that out by asking current SG students/recent SG graduates at St Gallen if you can find them on LinkedIn.

 

This is a little more specific: link.

This seems to say that currently, foreign nationals are very highly restricted in terms of work visa in Switzerland, even after studying there. It looks like they are looking into making it easier, but it might only be in certain shortage occupations (e.g., medical, engineering).

As for work visas in the EU, these will be country specific I believe, so that'd be for you to see about that bilaterally (e.g., SG with FR or DE). For the UK, that's a whole other process anyway, you just need a sponsor, but the process isn't super long. Just a tad annoying and expensive, but entirely feasible (I know this one from experience as an EU citizen soon to start a job there, and Brexit forcing me to need a visa). 

 

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