I’m French and am thinking of doing a masters in management (MiM) course abroad to get some international experience. Would you recommend that I go to the UK, or further afield like Asia?
The first thing to think about is language. English is the language of business and it would be good if in your time at business school you learnt to speak it really well. Although the Asian schools will teach in English, it might be better to study somewhere people talk the language like natives. However, more important is to decide why you want international experience. If it’s for the fun of it, then you should go to whichever place you think you think would be most enjoyable to live in. Whether you think it’s the UK or Asia – I can’t answer that one for you. But if it is because you expect to spend your working life being internationally mobile, flitting around the world for the rest of your career, then I’d go for Asia. It is not only where the future is, it is increasingly where the present is, too.
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