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How hard is it for international students who holds a degree from foreign countries and are currently pursuing graduate studies in New York to get internships/job opportunities (both paid and unpaid) in the US?

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Thank you so much for your advice. You've really thought from my perspective and I really appreciate that!

I am graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Sciences in the UK this coming June. However, I have always been interested in fashion and I would really love to pursue to a career in the business side of fashion. However, I have no prior work experience related to fashion at all. All I have done was a finance internship and a few customer service jobs at clinics, so I am a bit worried. As I have always wanted to study about fashion and I realised I lack the business knowledge & intellectual understanding of the fashion industry, I decided to continue my education upon completion of my bachelor degree. And luckily, I have recently been accepted to LIM College, to do the MBA program with a concentration in fashion management, and to Parsons, to do the AAS in fashion marketing. While I am sure Parsons is a more well-known school in the fashion industry and it will probably will provide me with more professional connections, LIM also has partnerships with many major fashion companies and many of its students have previously acquired internships with big names in the industry too. I am sure with my background, I will probably be better at merchandising or buying, so going to LIM, a school that is solely geared for the fashion business, seems to be more suitable for me. However, I do want to explore my creative potential and experience the feeling of working with the creative minds at Parsons. The level of the two courses is also one of my concerns. I am aware that an MBA is getting more important in the fashion industry nowadays. However, is an MBA in fashion management, with a curriculum that includes topics such as Global management, Business Law, Financial Management etc., not very useful for me at this stage since I have no previous work experience in the fashion industry? Would I be over-qualified for the industry while seeking for entry-level jobs? Both the MBA and AAS include a compulsory, credited internship as part of the curriculum. So I am sure I will get my first fashion-related work experience by doing either of these courses. However, I still need to consider my future after this one year of fashion education. Which course would be more appropriate and beneficial in my case? Any advice would be extremely appreciated. Thank you so much in advance!