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.
I'm planning to apply for the same program (msc finance and investments at RSM). Do you think foreigners can get a job in NL after graduating from RSM?
Based on my expirience at the UvA...Once you get one internship, I know I can get a 50k a year job in NL in the corporate sector when I graduate. I can fight hard to get an extra few K corporate wise but I feel IB is a better expected return because of the higher upside despite the lower potential for success.
The way I see the comparison is like this.
UvA MsC Quantitative Finance gets you a job easily in hard core data positions for people of all likes and very few degrees will pay more or give better street credibility than that for English for a position in the Benelux.
Around that looking at everything else RSM MScs hit better on the management, accounting and investment side of things.
Between the 7 or 8 degrees between the two of them it seems to be that when applying for a position depending on the role excluding people with extra expirience or a Tier 1 foreign degree, the top people on the list are the MsC students from the Msc that is most closely related to that position. I am talking for finance, accounting, investments etc.
UvA is a mess right now because the economics faculty refuses to modernize and give fair access to clubs for non dutch speakers where as RSM seems much farther along in providing the ability to take part in extracurricular activities.
Luckily for us there are too many positions wanting dutch speaking F&I students so from what I have discussed with foreign EU students is that it can help offset the fact there are a more limited number of ones that don't require dutch.
From my expirience interning and going through and getting accepted in application proccesses I have found companies tend to either only want dutch or only want non dutch for a position. It tends to be split into three requirements Native Dutch ENglish focus (I am native so these are my best shot) English but communicating in French, German or sometimes something like SPanish
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