Do overseas colleges hurt employement chances?
I am looking into transferring to John Cabot University as well as American University of Rome. I am confident I would enjoy going to school in Italy significantly more than in the US, however ultimately my goal is to work in NYC within ER/AM/HF and I am concerned that I simply will not be taken seriously by going to a non-target school abroad. John Cabot University has a CFA recognized curriculum and I have already completed a PWM internship and am lining up another, if that helps.
Get your degree from a target and study abroad once or twice or three times.
Thanks, that's what I've decided to do. Now it's time to get in.
Those universities are absolutely terrible (forget about ER/AM/HF, you won't even be looked at for commercial banks). You won't have any networking opportunities, and likely be in high debt.
I am assuming since you are considering these places, that you have a very low SAT/GPA. In this case, apply to flagship public universities, or go to community college with the view of transferring to one.
My plan was to use one of those schools as a backup option(they'd be a more enjoyable exp. vs a US school but since NYC is the goal...) as I am applying to 2 targets, a few semi-targets and a couple decent non-targets. I am at a good community college with a 3.5(will likely be around 3.6 after next semester) w/2 finance internships, a RE license, killer essays, solid recs and some other ECs. Never took SAT/ACT in HS, so am only applying to schools with no SAT reqs.
If you want to go overseas, there are good options but none of the ones you mentioned are close to decent.
I doubt the student experience would be good either. You will be basically stuck in a foreigner enclave at a school the local populace look down on. While Italy (as an example) might be nice for a few weeks, the novelty will wear off. Unlike a normal university in the US (or Italy for that matter) there wont be any student clubs or sports or anything.
Foreign Education (Originally Posted: 04/20/2012)
I recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in economic history and returned to the States. I know the job market isn't great (ha!) but it was a lot harder here that I expected. Thankfully, that's all past tense.
The purpose of this posting is to get a little feedback on the value of foreign higher education from the esteemed monkeys. Just as I am of the opinion that we do too little to keep the people to come here to study, I also think we don't offer enough recognition to foreign education. But that may be me grinding my own ax.
Thoughts, feedback, Flame on.
I'm not familiar with Edinburgh but I assume it's a good school. I would definitely look at a resume with a graduate from U of E as long as everything else looked good. I've hired foreign and generally haven't seen a real difference between US and ex-US educational quality except maybe that some grads out of Asian schools are super hardcore (study like 15-18 hours a day!!!).
Congrats, Edinburgh must have been an awesome city to live. I visited a week last year (family is UK-based). Loved the castle :)
Heh. Shit, mate. Some of the people I met at my college would camp in the school library for days on end to study. With sleeping bags and shit.
I'm not to familiar with it first hand, but the impression I have is that it is very good. I think most young people are more mature and motivated by the time they go to university, therefore making it a better learning experience. But then again, my school is just a piece of shit, so my domestic reference level is not great. How old were the typical students in Edinburgh?
Street, I don't know that the average age is too different from most US universities. But your comment does bring up a distinction between US and UK systems. Whereas in the US undergraduates tend to have the first two years to sample courses on their way to deciding on a major, that isn't the case in the UK. When you get an offer from a university, it is for a specific degree. This means that from the first day of study you are engaged in courses that are directly related to the degree. You could make the argument that this attention to your degree helps to develop a more mature attitude to study in general. Of course, that is not to say that a great number of American students aren't following a plan of study from day one.
Not to be an asshole or anything, but part of the problem is your major. Economics would have been a better choice than economic history. When I think of good schools abroad obviously the Russel group, NUS, HKU, HEC, IIT, IIM, the problem is when looking at universities abroad is there is no way an average individual can know reputationally a school, as compared to a "local" one where there are graduates to look at.
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