Berkeley vs. Warwick: which undergrad uni is better for banking?

sefago
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:30:08 +0000

That’s not entirely true. I have friends who received their undergradute degree from Southampton, Warwick, Durham, Manchester and St Andrews who are now in WS.



To clarify- I meant straight out of college. Like an IB would prefer to just hire you in your country of residence and then maybe do an intracompany transfer later to a base on wall street. I am sure your friends did not get the jobs straight out of college- they might I dont know and I have never heard of such a thing. Of course your friends from those schools might have worked in london for a while then transferred to wall street.

What I saw in college in the US was this-when an international student goes up to talk to recruiters at IB they would outrightly advise you to apply for the office in the country you have residence in. People from Singapore and HK are lucky in that they are a huge base for banks. If you are exceptional and have a couple of internships in an IB from you country- you could then luckily apply for a position in the United States. If you come from a country that an IB does not have an office in you could then have to try in the US- use your OPT and then if lucky get a H1B. My friends who were European got placed in IB in london or Switzerland- some were lucky to get placed in the US. Infact lots of Americans want to work in London but its very hard for them to do so.



And the law re Immigration applies to all foreigners even to those who graduated from Oxford and Cambridge.



I meant you must be extraspecial for them to put an effort. They have to apply for an H1-B for you. Why would they do that when they could just place you in London? If he goes to Warwick and gets into an IB he could of course try and move to the US. But being hired straight from Warwick for the US office? I hope you know that people from Ivies with 3.8s cannot get jobs on WS and then an IB receiving TARP funds will now go to Warwick and hire their student over an American citizen.