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I'm a US student who has spent the last two years working in econ consulting (background in statistics and math, econ minor). Have been planning to do a PhD in either metrics or statistical theory and decided awhile back to apply this fall. I want to live outside of the US (probably UK/EU/ANZ), so naturally the idea of doing my PhD outside of the US sounds amazing. I ended up applying to Uni Melbourne's PhD program; just had the interview and it sounds like I would get fully funded there. This sounds exciting, but I have been hearing that outside of a select few (e.g., Oxbridge), if you go outside the US for your PhD your placement options will be woeful. So I'm curious if anyone has info on Melbourne's quality as a program? The problem for me is that I would have to decide on Melbourne before I heard from any US school since the timelines are different. For context, I went to a top 25 US school undergrad, majored in stat (3.9+ major GPA, 3.77 overall), also had a commerce major and a econ minor. Have all of the math courses they would want (real analysis, etc.) with similar 3.9 level grades. GRE was 170Q/165V/5 and I feel good about my rec letters. But I don't have research experience outside of the two years in econ consulting (at a top 3 firm in the industry). I assume that last bit is a killer for a top 20 econ program and probably for stat programs as well but not really sure. Any help would be appreciated!