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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also do not understand the uncertainty. He is getting a specialized degree without obligatory basketweaving courses in 3 years for a reasonable sum of money. Congratulations!  [/quote]

[i]FWIW, once you pay for everything, it's not a lot cheaper than a US private.  But 3 years instead of 4 is a big plus. 
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Just saying bcs a lot of people look at tuition dollars and that doesn't tell the whole story.[/quote]

but there are hiring concerns back here in the states.  Because the course of study is so precise in UK schools, the question then becomes can what they "read" for at Oxbridge actually translate to a job back in the USA?[/quote]

[b]I wouldn't worry about tha[/b]t. There are far more people in the world who don't know "Santa Clara" or "Haverford" or, heck, "Williams" and they live to tell the tale. HR knows Oxford.

I know a few recent grads who do quite well working for American companies in London and then arbitrage that experience with a higher role in the US in same company.  It's easier to be an American who has a visa to get a job working at Goldman or Microsoft than it is for their American sibling to get that same job at that same company here in US[/quote]

I would.  British universities are only 3 years and it is "reading" only one topic.  It's very different from the US system and US employers know this.[/quote]
US employers love GB and Trinity graduates. At my dc’s mega unicorn there are about 40 people just from their uni, including CIO.[b] The world is bigger than the US.[/quote][/b]

and yet most companies in the US hire from the 4,000-5,000 universities we have . . . because they know what they are getting.  There are no career fairs at Oxford[/quote]

https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/careers-fairs  :wink: [/quote]

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