<p>what companies/firms recruit at tufts? Any big names? I'm not just talking in the financial sector.</p>
<p>The easiest way to see who is recruiting at Tufts is to see who comes to career fairs, though companies recruit in other ways as well. Many departments hold their own more specialized career fairs, and employers will vary by semester and year, but here are some of the highlights from the 100+ employers who came to last semester’s general career fair:</p>
<p>Ameriprise Financial, AXA Advisors, BAE Systems, Cambridge Associates, the FBI, General Electric, Harvard U, Honda R&D, Integra LifeSciences, Intel, Microsoft, MIT Lincoln Lab, Northwestern Mutual, Raytheon, the Shaw Group, the U.S. State Department, the Clinton Foundation, World Energy Solutions, and Yale.</p>
<p>Tufts tends to get more boutiques and small firms than big names. Not sure why big names are preferable: pay is often higher at small firms (though benefits are usually lower), and quality of life is generally preferable as well.</p>
<p>LOL! Yale hires Tufts graduates for what reason exactly?</p>
<p>Seems like an improportional number of them would be hiring from IR…but I don’t think as an international student, IR would suit me…I mean, what if I got kicked out of the U.S. after graduation…my government’s not gonna hire me…and the FBI certainly isn’t…!!!</p>
<p>Why’d you balk at Yale and not Harvard or MIT, two other employers listed?</p>
<p>Hah, do you plan on getting kicked out of the US?</p>
<p>A lot of international kids get student visas, which means that when they cease being a full-time student, they have to leave.</p>
<p>Yeah…and I actually have to convince the consulate that I think America’s not good enough for me to stay on in after I graduate…ahhhh…there’s no place like home…</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of an incident where a Tufts student wasn’t able to obtain a work visa after graduation. There are actually quite a few international students from India in the school of engineering.</p>
<p>Say hello to the economic crisis…the U.S. might be packing off all immigrant workers in a week…</p>
<p>Where did you hear that? Our society would collapse without immigrants. Agricultural and manufacturing output would plummet, all our technology would stop working, there’d be no one around to take care of our kids, scientific research would stop dead. The only things Americans do anymore is management and law.</p>
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I disagree with most of those statements (and your usage of periods 
)
Most of the companies listed are either financial firms or science/technology. Other than those, though, I don’t see any reason for an unproportionate amount of IR hiring. Also, I don’t think being an international student means IR would be bad… plenty of internationals do IR. Also, as others have stated, if you manage to find a job in whatever field you choose there’s no reason why you’d be kicked out of the US.
Also, I don’t know where your from, but I don’t know why you’re government wouldn’t hire you. And the FBI doesn’t need very many IR people, anyways, as they’re primarily for internal business (as opposed to the CIA).</p>
<p>“Tufts tends to get more boutiques and small firms than big names.”</p>
<p>ugh</p>
<p>. . . go on.</p>
<p>small firms?</p>
<p>so basically tufts isn’t good enough to attract big name companies?</p>
<p>Did you read my list? GE, Intel, Microsoft, BAE Systems, Raytheon, AXA, and the State Department aren’t big enough for you?</p>
<p>Even so, the fact of the matter is that only a few career paths in the private sector are even available right out of undergrad. Many or most students go on to graduate school, and a huge number plan on working in the public or non-profit sectors. For the most part, the only industries that want to hire students right out of undergrad are engineering, finance, and some research labs. There aren’t a huge number of gigantic, big-name engineering firms (though BAE is one of them), most of them are small firms that do work in a specific regional area. Dedicated research labs are rarely big names, either. We do get a good number of large finance firms recruiting here, but the reality is that nowadays if you want to work in investment banking, you’re probably going to be working for a boutique, since all of the big investment banks have failed, been bought out, or transitioned to a universal bank format. </p>
<p>Also, it’s just not the case that a bigger name is always a better company, especially for employees. If name recognition is that important to you, why are you considering Tufts in the first place? We have virtually no name recognition among the general population, especially outside the northeast.</p>
<p>well I’ve already enrolled and paid my deposit, so i am going, not considering.</p>
<p>I feel bad about my decision sometimes because what I liked best about tufts was the location and the intangibles (atmosphere, etc), and sometimes I feel like those things aren’t worth the non-existent name recognition/reputation.</p>
<p>What is it you want to do?</p>
<p>I don’t know, but i sure as ***** am not letting my parent’s 200k+ investment lead to public/non profit work. I’ll probably major in either history, IR, or econ, or some combination, and right now I have no idea what I specifically want to do. I’ll probably go to grad school or get an MBA (eventually, and my current interest in business is not extremely significant)</p>
<p>Don’t dismiss public/non-profit work so quickly! After 4 years at Tufts that opinion could change. Keep an open mind-- you’re going to go there anyways, right?</p>