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qwerty

[Jon@Admissionado]

Well start at the Top. Top 10 schools given the prestige they offer, often allow you the best job possibilities and carry with them the best prestige overseas. Then look for schools that have good China connections - Duke for example, with its China campus, Berkeley with its strong Asia studies department. Finally, look at international schools that have strong connections, like of course, HKUST.

Hope this helps, buddy.

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qwerty

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hi

you should look for electives which sound like

Post-Merger Integration
General Management Workshop
Strategy
Nature of Strategy
The Consulting Process
Valuation in Financial Markets
Marketing Intelligence
Operations Strategy
Management Decision Models
Business Operations Consulting
Strategy, Structure and Incentives
Global Strategy and Multinational Enterprise
Competitive and Corporate Strategy
Strategic Market Planning

anything which give you following skills
Hard skills:
1) Microsoft Powerpoint - you will (and have to) become a master at this, and will eventually have the ability to produce presentations quickly, concisely, and meaningfully
2) Microsoft Excel - less exposure than investment banking. Still, "modeling" is a meaningful component of a consultant's work, and something every consultant is expected to have significant exposure to. Note -firmsodeling" done in case work may not be directly comparable to the financial modeling more common at investment banks
3) Business knowledge - typically broad exposure across different topics like strategy, operations, organization and several areas where you'll have expertise. This expertise may be as broad as "operations turnaround" and as specific as "benchmarking for insurance companies".

Soft skills:
1) Client interaction (explained above)
2) Heavy team interaction
3) Presentation skills - this is a cornerstone of consulting work. After all, findings don't mean anything if you can't convince the client to believe in and adopt them
4) Project/workflow planning and execution - this is subtle but important. Much of the time at investment banks, you are given incremental work - eg, add these updated numbers to the model, bind these presentations, insert a graph on chart 11. Consulting is focused on you OWNING a piece of the entire project, setting your own deliverables and timeline, and executing against that framework. This helps you develop the ability to be "standalone" in consulting lingo.



For more information of consulting related electives read this book

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ctLTOJPZQIYC