Is the MSF/MiF really necessary to break into UK IB ?

Hi everybody,

Im a French 3rd year ug student at emlyon business school, got a 3,6/4 GPA, did an academic exchange at UCLA and I will do Oxford summer school at lady margaret hall college in PPE. I also got ""cool"" extracurricular activities etc..


I also did 3 months as a corporate M&A Analyst during 1st year, 5 months of corporate lev. finance in 2nd year, im going to do 6months as a financial auditor at EY Lux in my 3rd year and then I will hopefully do in my last (4th) year 6-months IB/M&A internship in mid-cap probably in France or eventually UK?

And I was thinking that given in the U.K a bachelor degree is enough for analyst position (not france) could I realistically get an IB full-time position with my CV even tough I didnt do any summer internship ? Or should I go for masters degree directly ? 

Thanks everyone !!

2 Comments
 

Bachelors is good enough from what I know, and you have a lot more experience than most UK students. I would say ideally you would want to do a summer internship at a BB/EB in your final year if you want to do FT in a years time, because recruiting directly for FT is much harder.

That being said, feel free to contribute and subsidise our collapsing university system by paying 50K a year for MSc as an international student :)

 

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