RSM MsC Finance & Investments

So I am an American that wanted an expirience abroad and ended up getting a Business Administration and Finance Bachelors froom the University of Amsterdam.

I am currently slated to attend RSM for the MsC Finance and Investments.

I really want to get into investment banking and my plan was to try to tap into the growing sector in Warsaw or the traditional London pathway (though NYC seems better than London for me) at one of the major banks and then make a lateral internal move to New York when I eventually want to return to the states (which is seeming dummer and dummer with every day that passes).

Did I make a mistake choosing RSM? At best it seems to be Tier 3 targeting for Banks and knowing the dutch, it means its only good for Dutch students (this country doesn't even care if you are fluent dutch, have to be native and all the school clubs are heavily anti foreigners although RSM does let you make english only investment clubs which is a huge Plus over UvA which is trully anti-foreigner to the point they'd be sued if in the US). Will investment banking for ECM and M&A be feasible if I get good grades from my degree or am I better off waiting a year and trying to get into something like Imperial or UCL?

I know I boxed myself out of NYC in at least the near to mid term but I am happy in a traditional IB role in growing markets that offer some cultural flair.

I have German citizenship (though don't speak it) so that at least lets me bypass the working permit issue and my internship expirience is in the global CAPEX team for a fortune 500 company but that is it.

 
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