Generally, students start to collect postgraduate information in their junior year. It is suggested that students in their freshman and sophomore years should participate more in school activities and clubs, actively look for internship opportunities, and start internships during the summer vacation of their sophomore year. At the beginning of the third year, you should start preparing for IELTS or TOEFL, GRE or GMAT, recommendation letters, and improve GPA. In the first semester of the senior year (September), you can organize various materials such as language scores, transcripts, personal statements, resumes, etc., and start submitting applications

Generally speaking, TOP30 universities in North America require TOEFL 100+, IELTS 6.5+, GPA3.5+, GRE 320+/GMAT 700+

Whether you take the GRE or the GMAT depends on what major the student wants to apply for. If students want to apply for MBA, finance, accounting and other business majors, they should take the GMAT. Most of the majors outside the business school accept GRE, such as liberal arts majors, chemistry, engineering and other science and engineering majors, etc. These majors mainly accept GRE scores

The deadline for postgraduate applications varies according to different universities and colleges and different majors. Generally concentrated between November and January. Students should check the application deadline and other information on the school's official website in advance, so as not to miss the application time

Generally, the admission result will be known within one to two months after the application has been submitted. If the school or major you are applying for has an interview, you can ask the interviewer when the admission result will generally be received.

In fact, although the time to prepare for the postgraduate application in the third year is tight, it is still too late. In the summer of the junior year, you can do a background promotion through an internship. Usually communicate with professors of various subjects, let the professors get acquainted with you, and you can ask them for recommendation letters in the future. Take the time to get your language scores and GRE/GMAT scores. At the same time, you can't relax and keep improving your GPA.

- Generally speaking, graduate students in Canada generally do not need GRE/GMAT, but there are also a small number of programs that require students to provide GRE/GMAT, depending on different schools and different majors.
- Graduate students in the United States generally require GRE/GMAT for business and science and engineering, and most literature and history subjects do not require GRE/GMAT. Of course, it depends on the specific requirements of the school's official website.

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- First of all, you need to know the programs you like or related to your major, and then according to the rankings of the universities, go to the official websites of different schools to check whether the schools offer your favorite programs, and do some related research on them, and then compare which one Which school program is right for you?
- There are also students who want to think about whether to return to work in China after graduation, or plan to find a job in North America, or continue to study for a Ph.D. If students want to return to work after graduation, they must consider the actual situation of domestic employment, and the country may be more recognized by famous schools. Therefore, when applying for graduate students, you need to consider the ranking of the school, and give priority to the major that is better in the famous school. If students want to stay in North America for employment after graduation, the school's ranking is not as important as it is in the country. The primary consideration for students is what you can learn in this program and whether it will be helpful to your future work; whether the school can provide good job resources and opportunities to help you get a better job after graduation.

- Some graduate programs are divided into course based and research based. Course based is mainly based on employment; research based is mainly based on research. Course based master generally takes one to two years, and you can graduate with full credits and then get a job.
- In addition to taking classes, Research based masters need to do projects, write graduation thesis, etc. Generally, a graduation thesis is submitted for graduation. Generally, research based students will apply to continue their Ph.D. or further study in this field after graduation.

- Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto; Richard Ivey School of Business - University of Western Ontario; Queens School of Business - Queen's University; Sauder School of Business - UBC; Desautels School of Management - McGill University; Schulich School of Business - York University, etc.

- When choosing a business school, it should be career-oriented, and location is a key factor to consider. If you plan to work in North America after graduation, then studying in a business school in a big city or its surrounding means you can get more internship and job opportunities.

- In addition to the hardware requirements for academic performance, applying for business programs also needs to increase the competitive advantage from the soft background. Students need to participate in extracurricular activities, rich social practice experience to enhance their background. For example, business-related internship experience in banks, securities institutions, investment banks, accounting firms, etc. will not only enrich the content of your documents, but will also add points to project applications.

- In addition, it is not necessary to take CPA or CFA and other qualification certificates to apply for North American business schools, but many students have already obtained CPA or CFA level 1 when they graduate from senior year, so they are more capable than other students who have not obtained CPA or CFA. Competitiveness.

- Generally, students without a business background can also apply for financial engineering, and students with backgrounds in mathematics, economics, statistics, computers, engineering, etc. are also very welcome applicants.
- Financial engineering generally has three branches: financial engineering, mathematical finance and financial mathematics.
- Financial engineering, mainly using mathematical models and computer knowledge to realize investment portfolio design, risk control, asset value calculation, etc. in the financial field.
- Mathematical finance refers to solving financial problems in a mathematical and computerized mode, performing more complex financial analysis on a series of financial instruments of the company, etc. This major has high requirements for mathematics professional level. .
- Financial mathematics, mainly using events in the field of mathematics to conduct in-depth research on the equilibrium of financial markets and the mathematical theory of securities pricing, so establish appropriate mathematical models, simulate the results of theoretical research, and analyze actual data. Econometric analysis research, this major is more inclined to recruit applicants with undergraduate backgrounds in mathematics, computing and physics.

- Finance is also a very popular business major, with three branches: pure finance, management class (MBA), and financial engineering.
- Pure finance is more inclined to financial knowledge learning in quantitative analysis; MBA is more inclined to knowledge learning in financial company management; financial engineering is a comprehensive application of knowledge in the three fields of finance, mathematics and computer science, through the establishment of financial mathematical models , thereby solving the problem.

- It is more difficult to apply for the MBA program than other business majors. Generally, applicants are required to have several years of work experience in related fields.
- MBAs are generally divided into two types: two-year and one-year programs. The two-year program generally has no direction in the first year, and all students need to study basic courses in various fields, such as finance, finance, data analysis, etc. In the second year, you will study specialized courses in different directions. The one-year course is suitable for professionals with good work experience and long-term work experience. Generally, applicants are required to have a professional background such as business, economics or science and technology.