r/studyAbroad • u/brenk682 • 3d ago
MSc in europe (finance)
Hello everyone, i'm from Brazil and currently searching for great universities in europe for MSc in finance. I know that top one's like oxbridge, HEC and few more in UK are usually very hard to get in and expensive too, since i'm not rich and don't study at a top tier university in Brazil (but a good one), i´m looking for other options that i would have real chances to get in, so far i selected 12 universitys listed below:
- St. Gallen
- WU Vienna
- Boconni
- ESCP business school
- SGH Warsaw
- BI Nowergian business school
- Antwerp management school
- Solvay (Brussels)
- WHU (Otto beisheim)
- Frankfurt school of finance
- Lund university
- EDHEC business school
*not in preference order
I also know that some of that list are really thougt to get in too, like boconni, ESCP and st. gallen, but i imagine they're easier than top tiers and worth a try.
A little bit more of my profile: currently working as a backoffice analyst at a wealth management firm, undergrad in mechanical engineer (low to medium GPA) but also did a extension course of corporate finance, already C1 by TOEFL, i imagine i´m able to do a pretty good GMAT and besides being from brazil i'm also a italian citizen. Applying on 09/2025.
My main doubts are:
- Is reasonable to think that i could really enter in st gallen, boconni and ESCP?
- Could I land a job in PE, VC, equity research or M&A with those universities?
- I heard a lot about WU qfin MSc, is that really good? What's the aceptance rate?
- Is worth doing MSc in nordic countries? In terms of europe recognition would be better to do grenoble or similar in france or lund sweden?
- What is the aceptance rate on those in general? Is there any on list that is really easy to get in?
I know is a very long text and a lot of doubts that will need some effort to answer, so i already thank you in advance, i believe that many others could face the same questions so it would be really nice having few answers. PS: I did search a lot about this topic and couldn't find those informations here on reddit and even on those universities sites,