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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It’s much harder to get a job in the US if your kid wants to pursue a degree in the UK and wishes to come back to work[/b]. Let’s put it that way. If they are of Ivy League caliber, send them to the ivies and not Oxbridge. It will make their life post-graduation much easier.

Grad school is still worth trying out though, if they just want the Oxbridge experience and aren’t really worried about immediate employment or anything. [/quote]

New poster. Please provide your evidence for the statement in bold above. Actual evidence, not just your personal assumptions. We'll wait....

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Pretty simple, UK schools are not target schools for US-based companies/US offices, like consulting, tech, or investment banking. It's much easier to get a job in the US out of an ivy than Oxbridge/LSE/Imperial/UCL or they call "G5" schools especially out of college.

[b]You also see much fewer Oxbridge applicants to top schools like YLS, HBS, etc[/b]. Just take a look at their undergrad enrollment data from another thread. Since you put Columbia on the same tier as Oxbridge, it still sends far more people to Yale/Stanford Law, HBS, Stanford GSB than all of Oxbridge combined. They are not known for their professional schools. Even schools at a lower tier like Brown and Dartmouth sent more people into elite US grad schools.

Unless your kids want to work in the UK, then she can apply to their London offices. But salaries will be likely lower than in the US and there's this whole hassle with visa issues.

Also, American universities don't value an UK PhD as much as an US PhD now. You can't get a teaching job just about anywhere in the US with a PhD from the UK. [/quote]

I disagree with this.  HLS was loaded with MPhils, Rhodes and Marshall scholars when I went there.  And I recently read a list about this fall's class and it too was populated with lots of Oxbridge types.  However, most are coming in having more than 2 years off after college.  It may be that the undergrads don't populate the American law schools, but a lot of American and British MPhils and other Scholars do.[/quote]

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