Choosing a MSc Finance program. London, Singapore, or Peking?

Hi WSO, may I have some career advice? I’m an Asian(nationality-wise) undergrad senior applying for MSFs abroad. My primary concern is whether I could secure a non-quant high finance FT position in a regional hub(my hometown is not one), the reason why I applied for those programs in the first place.

Factors that I have thought of:
- work visa, language, cultural connection, why not hire a local who knows this place better, etc.
- Lack of connections
- accessibility(relatively easier job hunt in whichever city my future school is in)
- school/program prestige(US/UK targets>HK/SG/CN targets)
- Entry level headcounts
- Personal profile (No FT experience, passed CFA L1, BB front office internship x1, Native Mandarin speaker, nearly native English ability)

Assuming that I am offered:

London: LBS MFA, Ox MFE, Imperial MSF
Singapore: NUS MSF, NTU MSF
Peking: Tsinghua MSF 2y

*Did not apply for schools in US or HK for personal reasons.

With all the above said, how should I rank them? And how should I approach this decision?

Thanks in advice.

 
Intern in IB - Gen:
The equality would only hold for London

This is new to me. Thanks. But apart from program presitge, career service: LBS>Ox. Not sure if this makes up for job hunting outside EU with a weaker brand.

 

As someone said, if you want to work in Europe LBS and oxford programmes are good but i would put LBS>oxford mfe (personal preference). I have a lot of friends who have done both programmes. Both are very good programmes but oxford mfe is slightly more academic and the workload is actually no joke hearing from my friends (+ that one two hours of commute if you were to attend networking events and interviews in london..)

On the other hand, if you are really interested in working in SG, nus and ntu programmes may actually open up more opportunities especially if you do not have SG work visa

 

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