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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Mambojambo2024][quote=Anonymous][quote=Mambojambo2024]I hear you. The decision to go abroad shouldn’t be done simply for financial reasons. I do wrestle with that thought….but I am leaving this decision up to my DS. Sure, we would save $250k plus over 4 years and this could give my DS an incredible head start in his life. But it shouldn’t be the primary motivation if the independence/maturity, initiative to understand why the kids wants to go abroad is not there to begin with.

We have also known 3 kids locally that attended UK schools simply for financial reasons. The results were all over the place. Not Oxbridge but Russell group unis. One couldn’t survive and returned year two after not adapting to their Lecture/Tutor system where 90% of your grade is one test at the end of the year. The other one is doing well and is graduating from Exeter in May with a degree in Marine Science and is currently applying to Masters programs all over the world. The 3rd one we know went to Bristol. Graduated in C. Engineering and is now back in the US working at a large international Engineering Construction firm. This one absolutely hated it when he was there. But now that he has been back for 2 years, he constantly talks about Bristol and how amazing it was….short memory I guess.

My concern is more with how US employers look at EU Business Schools. ESCP is not a UK school. It is a French school, that has a London campus and awards a UK degree.

When I look at say, a school like Tulane and its Freeman Business school (not picking on Tulane, amazing school, just an example of a private t50/t60), I have a tough time from just a Financial standpoint to find the value/benefit at $80k/yr vs ESCP at $56k for all 3 years.

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Not sure but I would guess an "EU Business School" is probably worse than a UK school for the reasons mentioned above. It's even less relevant to US employers than UK schools, which are at least in the English speaking world. For employers well versed in international universities and different cultures/very international/global companies I assume it would be fine, though.

I would absolutely go with Tulane over this French school if your DC wants to do business in the U.S., ESPECIALLY if it's business in the southeast. Tulane is known to be a selective school with a great reputation in the U.S. [/quote]

Husband went to Bocconi. His experience has been fine, but it was graduate school. Not undergrad. There are excellent non UK business schools in Europe that rival anything a t60 would offer in terms of academics. Most of these schools teach in English.

As for the Tulane example, we don’t live in the Southeast. It was just an example of an expensive private US school. But the fact remains that if you can save $250k, I could theorically put that $250k savings into a a fund and DS would have $300k Plus to start his life in the US after graduate school. Maybe to start a business, or whatever….On the one hand, I’;m worried about his decision, on the other hand, I would have loved the opportunity to have a $300k fund to start my life after grad school without the pressures of having to take the best paying job after school vs the “best job for you” .[/quote]
I definitely don't doubt the quality of academics at any of these EU programs and know that the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on amazing schools. This is largely unrelated to a U.S. hiring manager's preferences, however. I think American culture is such that the most well regarded universities in the U.S. are well known to Americans, so even though the U of Tokyo or UK schools might be "better" schools than many U.S. ones, graduates of Wisconsin or Tulane might be selected  based on name recognition alone. (Definitely true for regional companies)

That being said, a 300k fund right out of college might be totally worth it. I don't know starting business salaries but it sounds like a pretty great deal. Also, after you have experience name of undergrad becomes way less important, so it might not even matter that much in the end.[/quote]

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