Which aspect should be determined first when choosing an American study abroad school?

Teachers who study abroad with wisdom have traveled to more than 30 states and almost all big cities in the United States, and experienced with old friends, classmates and classmates from all over the United States, and gained some valuable experiences for you to choose a school: choosing a school is a comprehensive consideration, and we should start with the following points.

1. Comprehensive ranking

2. Professional ranking

3. Geographical location

4. Employment opportunities

Other climate and scenery are secondary factors.

First of all, we think that school ranking is the most important factor. Harvard, Yale, and MIT are the comprehensive big U that everyone yearns for. You can shake people by saying it. The recruitment of top 500 companies at home and abroad also attaches great importance to this comprehensive ranking. Secondly, we should consider the professional ranking. For example, Babson College Business School ranks first in entrepreneurship, but how many people and companies in China know about this school? Harvard, Yale and MIT are all famous. At the same time, we should also consider the style of the school. If you are an MBA student with an IT background and want to graduate and engage in high-tech entrepreneurship, it is more suitable for MIT and Stanford in terms of campus culture. If you apply for a business school with a financial background, which is more suitable for UNIV and Columbia University in new york, please pay attention to the premise that you have multiple OFFER.

Geographical location is the most difficult factor to choose. Smart overseas teachers believe that if there are multiple admissions, it is best for graduate students to study in big cities, such as new york, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago (including developed areas near big cities, such as Connecticut and New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland and Virginia, and eastern Pennsylvania). These commercial, financial and high-tech cities are highly developed. The first is good employment. The most effective way for China students to find jobs is summer internship. If they do well with their employers, they can generally stay there after graduation. If they study in the big countryside, it is far from anywhere, and summer internship is very troublesome. For students in big cities, your university is often inextricably linked with local companies, and the school can help you find internship units. The second is that you can experience American culture to the maximum extent.

It is worth mentioning that in some areas, large companies have more headquarters and more employment opportunities. Delaware has the headquarters of DuPont and other big companies, Connecticut has the headquarters of United Technologies, Seattle has Microsoft, Boeing, Boston has Gillette, EMC and other companies, Atlanta has CNN. Coca cola. Cincinnati has Procter & Gamble headquarters. Other old manufacturing centers in the United States are rapidly declining, and the law and order will be worse, which is not as ideal as these places, such as Detroit and other places.

If you major in financial accounting, I suggest you pay more attention to the big cities on the east coast, such as new york, Boston and Washington. New york City is the home base of the financial industry, and there are many investment banks and institutions on Wall Street to serve them. Sometimes, for example, City University of new york and Business School of City University of new york are not ranked very high, and they are all better than UCLA in the top 20. Or UNIV in university of michigan business school, it is easier to find an ideal job. New york and the United Nations are especially suitable for MPA students.

There are a large number of financial institutions and management consulting companies in Boston, a major town in Northeast China, such as Bank of America, State Street Bank, Fidelity Investment and Boston Consulting Group.

Washington DC, the capital, has a large number of institutions with government background, such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Reserve, and many big banks, such as CAPITAL ONE.

If the major is public administration, (MPA), new york and Washington are the best.

If you major in IT, entrepreneurship or MIS, the most developed areas of IT industry in the United States are Northern California (Silicon Valley), Boston-new york, Seattle, North Carolina Triangle, Maryland-Virginia (actually greater Washington area), Dallas, Texas and Austin.

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