How is going to an international college reflected by companies?

[Anonymous]

More prestigious than an ivy? DD adopted from China would like to go to college there.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the college. Oxford? La Sorbonne? Sure. Tsinghua University - I would not bet on it.

[Anonymous]

Depends on her choice in career plus coupled with good work experience/internships, in her field choice, international college experience can be looked at positively.

[Anonymous]

Well it depends on the business. The US is generally highly suspicious towards Chinese nationals, and if your US adopted daughter goes to study in China, she may well face the same kind of suspicions as a national.

[Anonymous]

If she wants to spend time in China--which is completely understandable--why not do a gap year there? Or go to college and spend a semester or year abroad.

Some foreign colleges are well known--Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne, LSE, McGill, U Toronto, St. Andrews, etc.--I would focus on those because they will give her the broadest array of options when she graduates.

[Anonymous]

Yes there is suspicion about China, obviously. But I would think that a bilingual Mandarin/English speaker would have no problems getting a job at a multinational post graduation. Maybe not at a Lockheed or Boeing, but yes at a Google or McKinsey. (Assuming grades, interviews skills, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Keep in mind that getting into a Chinese university is no easy task. Only a very small percent of Chinese applicants get in. Your DD would have to have killer Mandarin as well as doing very well on challenging exams to get in as a regular student. I am not talking about some sort of program geared toward foreign students (and raking in cash for the university) but the real undergrad program.

[Anonymous]

Hong Kong universities may have an application and intake process more similar to here. HKU would be a very good place to go - in English but could still provide exposure to China but also hard to get into.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she could do a year abroad in China. Or some joint degree from a US college and one in China.

[Anonymous]

What other Eurooean colleges are well respected in the US other than Oxford, Cambridge, or Le

[Anonymous]

it would be super unusual for an American to be a degree seeking undergraduate at BeiDa or Qinghua, though there are a fair number of international students (mostly from Asia) in short term programs and the graduate schools. In general, you have to keep in mind that her language skills would need to be equivalent to China's top students to be integrated into the normal undergraduate school. Plus, she'd be required to take all the political indoctrination classes. If she grew up and was educated in the US, it would be far more sensible to go to a US college with a robust China exchange program/year abroad.

[Anonymous]

I know for a fact that some employers unofficially discriminate against candidates with non-US (or other English-speaking countries) degrees.

Fair, or not, it is common to question the rigor of the degree and to view the candidate as a "foreigner," worry about possible language/cultural barriers, etc., assume that you will working as a low-paid H1-B.

[Anonymous]

so in general employers are ok with st andrews, oxford, cambridge, LSE?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the college. Oxford? La Sorbonne? Sure. Tsinghua University - I would not bet on it.

China, Japan and Korea care a lot more about where you get your degree from than here. If you are thinking about working over there it may not be an bad idea. But getting into Tsinghua is extremely difficult.

[Anonymous]

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