<p>Just wanted to know what your thoughts are on the topic?</p>
<p>I got into UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh and Manchester in the UK, and so far UCLA and BU in the US (still waiting most anxiously for more decisions to come out in a several more hours).</p>
<p>So I applied to business majors, and I was just wondering, in terms of career and internship opportunities, social life and academic rigour, if London or California or New York (applied to NYU) would be better?</p>
<p>I’m afraid darkhorse is being facetious, giving tongue-in-cheek advice that is absurd (major in business at UChicago…)
What about costs?
Do you want a campus life (UCLA has it, UCL doesn’t)?
Will you have legal permission to work in the US? In Europe? Neither one?</p>
<p>Well cost-wise tuition for UCL would be cheaper, but it isn’t that huge a concern…
As for campus life, I probably wouldn’t mind it either way, but I thought UCL’s social life is supposedly the best amongst the London unis?</p>
<p>And umm, legal permission…oh my god I’m such an idiot I didn’t even think to check for US D: I just assumed that I’d be able to apply for a work visa or something after I graduate </p>
<p>It’s actually pretty tricky to get a work visa straight out of college, in some years outright impossible. There’s a yearly cap on the number of work visas and in some years that number is hit before you’d graduate from college and become eligible to apply. (You need to have your Bachelor’s degree in hand before you can apply for an H-1B work visa.)</p>
<p>Foreigners who want to stay in the US after college often go to graduate school, but that’s not a good option for a business major (since any decent MBA program will require significant work experience prior to enrollment). Your other option would be to marry a US citizen while in college and get a work permit that way.</p>
<p>^I second this. It’s virtually impossible to get a work visa with a Bachelor’s, unless you’re a tech genius. It happens, but you can’t count on it. You have a total of 12 months for CPT (work experience while enrolled at school) and OPT (a job/work training after graduation). So, if you had 3 2-month internships, you have 6 months left for OPT. It is wise to save that time in case you’re lucky enough to find a company that will sponsor you for an H1B since you need to “bridge” that time in whatever legal way.
Overall, you should choose what college is best for 1° your education in whichever way you define it 2° your finances 3° your professional options.
If you return to your home country, which degree will be the most likely to help you find a job?
Did you get into Arts&Sciences at BU and UCLA, or “undecided”?
Are your offers at Warwick, Edinburg, etc, conditional - and how likely are you to meet your conditions?</p>
<p>Ah the visa issue sounds complicated >< and b@r!um your suggestion of marrying a US citizen to extend visa is pretty heartless :-? :-)) hahahhaa no guarantees I’ll meet someone I wanna marry there though so can’t bank on that </p>
<p>Anyway, I have decided on UK!
I think I can apply for a tier 2 visa assuming I get a job (which hopefully isn’t going to be a problem as I’ve heard that warwick and ucl are target unis)
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<p>MYOS1634, I got into management at Boston and the Kilachand Honors College… for my UK universities my offers ranged from ABB to AAAC for Edinburgh, Manchester and Warwick while my UCL offer is unconditional. But since I take Singapore A levels, I already have my results and I already met my conditions thank goodness! :D</p>
<p>Now I’m just trying to decide between Warwick and UCL hahah I’m trying to change the course I was offered so my decision will depend on whether they let me change too! :)</p>
<p>I got into Statistics and Management for Business at UCL but hoping to change to Econs and Stats…
For Warwick I got into Management but my request to change to Econs and industrial Organisation was approved :)</p>
So it’s really just down to UCLA vs UCL for me…</p>
Anyone else has other thoughts to share?</p>
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