Posted by - dibya_saha - on 15 April 2016 - 5:26pm

• Posted by - Thomas Graf - on 18 April 2016 - 11:13am

  Hi there,

  at the end of the day, you don't study because of a school's ranking positions or accreditations - but because of your career goals and interest.

  As I outline in my eBook "Business Masters: How you find the best Master in Management or MBA", you need to (1) understand your own career goals and (2) understand the career benefits of a school, and then weigh both against each other.

  If you study a MSc in Finance at a serious school such as the University if Strathclyde, you will learn a lot. So, you will have more competence afterwards as well as a postgraduate degree. This itself may help you find a good job, for example, in your home country. A school's career services provide you with another means to achieve your career goals - for example, if a school has good contacts to your target industry and important employers.

  So, your job is to find out PRECISESLY about your career benefits at your target school. Just saying "Employement chances in the UK are small" is not sufficient. You should concretely analyze your target school's employement reports and talk to program managers, current students and ex-students (alumni) to find answres on questions such as "How much experience do you have with students from my country? Where did they find a job? Can I talk to a current student from my country?" and so on.

  For more details, please read my eBook (Chapter TALK TO and READ).

  Your decision in favor or against this program should be based on such a detailed annalysis. Also, I recommend you to identify more than one target program and apply at 3 or 5 programs. Again, see the important steps outlined in my eBook.

  Best wishes
  Thomas

  By Thomas Graf

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  • Posted by - dibya_saha - on 18 April 2016 - 4:34pm

    Thanks Thomas for your valuable advice.

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