Boston College at Full cost or Unknown LAC with scholarship?

Based on the additional information about the lack of career services at your current school combined with your career objective of entering into a financial services profession, then transferring may or may not be the best solution.

What is your current major ?

Are you on a full tuition scholarship ?

If studying a business related major (such as economics) on a full tuition scholarship, then consider staying and using part of the BC money (2 years at BC may cost about $150,000) for a one year specialty masters degree in a business or quantitative field or go to Duke University’s one year Masters in Business Foundations (I think) degree program for about $80,000 (if you don’t get a partial scholarship) & enjoy the recruiting / job opportunities as a member of that Duke University masters degree program.

I really like the structure of this program open only to recent college graduates with less than one year of post-undergraduate work experience.

P.S. If you do not want to spend a lot of money on a one year masters degree at Duke, there are more cost effective options for masters degrees & there are reputable certificate programs for IB training.

P.P.S. If you share your current major area of study, I may be able to recommend other target transfer schools which may be more affordable, but I do understand that IB tends to like degrees from prestigious schools–but if you are quant oriented that may not be an insurmountable hill.

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