Washington Uni in StLouis vs Vanderbilt vs Uni Of Texas at Austin postgraduate MS Finance

As European what's your thoughts about these postgraduate?
MS Finance

Higher costs than European universities..

My goal is to breaking into investment banking and work in USA.

Princeton is really hard to get an admit and is too quantitative. I'm more corporate finance oriented.

Other ones are target - non target - semi target in US?

Thank you monkeys always a pleasure!

 
Best Response

UT is great, but my understanding is that it is true that the admissions committee does not want IB or bust students. 10-15% of each class still lands IB, but it's more that the committee understands that you need some prior relevant experience to get into IB and the UT MSF has been historically focused more on non-finance UG students.

There are definitely options for international students though, I know a couple folks that ended up in Big 4 TAS/Consulting and you can get looks from MBB if you've got a good enough resume. Definitely harder on the IB front but that's going to be an issue wherever you go.

If you really want IB, I'd go Vandy but I don't think you can go wrong with UT if you're not IB or bust.

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