Working at S&P vs. continuing with school?

Hi everyone, asking for a friend:

So I'm currently a student who is in his last year at Queens Commerce, in Canada. Currently, I'm doing a study abroad program at Peking University (北京大学), as I am principally looking for work in Asia/China. Last summer I worked in a MM fixed income sales, but didn't wind up getting a return offer there.

This year, I applied to a masters program in Business Analytics, and got in. However, recently, I also landed a full time job with S&P doing credit related analysis.

I wanted people's opinions on what I should do. Should I take the offer? I want to wind up working in credit in some capacity, and I really liked sales last summer in general. Any and all opinions welcome.

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