Undergraduate students majoring in finance want to go abroad for postgraduate study after graduation, and also want to go to the United States. Your idea is very good. Indeed, the United States is the most developed country in international finance and the birthplace of modern financial theory is also in the United States. If you want to come back and develop after your studies, choose the direction of American master of finance, an absolute gold medal career.
At present, the master of finance in the United States is divided into three directions: financial engineering, finance and financial analyst. Financial engineering emphasizes the background of mathematics and computer, so it is difficult to apply it. The employment direction is mainly futures and stock index related industries, with high wages but few employment opportunities. Financial application is relatively difficult, but it is theoretical. As far as international students are concerned, the employment situation is not as good as the other two directions. Financial analysis is different from marketing and human resource management, and its hard skills can be used in any country. At the same time, international students in this field not only have high employment rate and high salary, but also are quite respected in the United States. In addition, it is much less difficult to apply for this kind of master's degree than other masters in finance. But generally speaking, it is still difficult to apply for the financial major, and the possibility of winning the prize is relatively small because of the high rate of return on capital in the future. If you want to win the prize, you must have a strong background to support it.
According to my research, if I want to go to a school in the United States within the TOP30 and within the professional TOP50, my TOEFL score is above 100. I'm not sure about the specific standard of GMAT, but it should also be equivalent to A+ high score. In short, the higher the better ~ ~ The weighted average grade point average (GPA) during the undergraduate period is above 3.5, plus strong reference materials and research background, 265,438+0655. Otherwise, the requirements can only be lowered ~ ~ ~
About "research background". If you can participate in the professor's research project during the undergraduate period, or your graduation thesis can be published in international journals, then even if your GPA is poor, you will have a chance to get an offer from Niujiao University. But for ordinary undergraduates, the thesis is an unreachable dream ... Let's skip this paragraph and look at the following.
About GPA: It's not too late to start studying hard if you want to apply for the top 100 school. After all, the specialized course hasn't started yet. And there are many forms of GPA: subject GPA, compulsory GPA, core GPA and professional GPA. If your core GPA is high, you can make up for the deficiency in the previous period.
With good GPA and foreign language scores, I can only say that there are no restrictions on the basic conditions for entering the first-class universities in the United States (otherwise, even the admissions secretary may not pass ~ ~). If you really want to achieve your wish, you should pay attention to the following two points:
The first is a letter of recommendation. Sophomore students will begin to contact majors next semester. I suggest you get on well with the professor. If you have the conditions, you can work on projects with professors from the beginning of junior professional courses to increase your hard power. Ask the professor to write a recommendation letter for you. It would be better if you could get the recommendation of famous foreign professors. My college classmate finished his master's degree in China and just went to Washington University in August. He was recommended to his boss by his classmates in China. There are many returnees who take professional courses in 985 school, and most of them have a constant relationship with foreign countries. If you can ask him to write you a recommendation letter or even recommend it directly to a foreign professor friend, it can be said that "one sentence is worth ten thousand sentences" ... the recommendation letter is not urgent. You can do it when you apply for the senior year, but you should be prepared from now on, and don't cram.
The second point most people don't pay much attention to, but I think in universities, besides actively participating in some professional-related competitions, production competitions and thesis competitions (if you can't publish international publications, you might as well distribute some in China, the more the better), you should also take some rankings and accumulate some "scientific research capital". Before graduation, you should find a professional internship, preferably a famous one. If you really don't have time, you'd better find a relationship to prove it. In my experience, personal practical experience and practical ability are very important here, because graduate students, to put it bluntly, go out to be slaves to their tutors. If you only have good English grades and can't work, who will take you?