Oxford MFE, Columbia FE, LBS MFA for Hong Kong IBD
Hi All,
I am deciding between offers from Oxford Master in Financial Econ, LBS MFA, Columbia Msc in Financial Econ. I am a senior at a US top20 school with BB IBD internship experience (obviously no return offer). I am thinking about going thru recruiting again for HK IBD internship this upcoming summer. Any thoughts on what is the best program to break into HK IBD? Will British schools be looked down by recruiters in HK?
HKUST has a great MSc in Wealth Management program.
Looked down? Nope. Especially not Oxford MFE. I'm not so sure about LBS MFA because it's well known for it's MBA and that program is pretty new. LSE, though, is a better known and respected internationally for their MSc programs.
Although expensive I would say Columbia as best bet mate
it all depends on where you want to work, but as you mentioned HK the obvious choice would be Oxford given its brand name.
Nevertheless: Columbia would be beneficiary for the US job entry UK would be LSE, Continental and worldwide (excl. US and UK) Oxford
British schools will not be looked down upon by recruiters. HK generally likes people with western educated individuals from notable names. There’s a bit of a western-education premium.
I’m going to assume your answer is “yes”, but are you fluent in Mandarin and can read Chinese? Majority of deals done from HK offices are China centric (either in China, or the clients are Chinese). There may be one or two places that are Southeast Asia focused, but those mostly exist out of Singapore. So a big prerequisite is often language.
thanks for ur response. I did a BB IBD internship last year in HK, so obviously I do speak chinese.
A lot of my friends are in the Oxford MFE so I can comment on this. Finance placement from this course is unbelievable (even I'm still suspicious of how good it is). 75 people in the course, half got into IBD in london, singapore, hong kong and beijing. A lot of chinese students with limited internship experience landed hong kong ibd so it's definitely well-regarded.
This course historically places into the usual GS, MS, JPM but also Silver Lake, Blackstone, PJT.
thanks, do you know if they do a summer internship before the MFE program start? cuz based on what i heard it is a one-yr program - I'm not sure if banks allow you to do a summer internship if u are not in the penultimate year
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