UNDERGRADUATE at Bocconi, SSE, CBS or UCL?

What's the best place for an undergraduate degree in business/finance/economy?

UCL will leave me with a lot of debts.
Bocconi, SSE, and CBS would be basically free in my case thanks to Norwegian funds (Lånekassen).
I'm asking for UG only, I'm pretty sure I will do masters at another school.
In the future, I might want to be some sort of manager/analyst/ for a big firm/(I/)BB hopefully.

Of course I am not guaranteed admission to any of these places, but say I could choose any of them.

Thank you.

 

It's just that it's so expensive! I want to work in UK (or US if I ever get the chance) post UG/grad school. If I do my master straight after UG, either in UK or US, won't I have a good chance of getting a job where I do my master? Doesn't master matter more than UG?

 

SSE (assuming it's Stockholm School of Economics?) places a ton of students in IB both regionally in Scandinavia, but also in London. If you look through people from Sweden at BBs in London on LinkedIn you will see a majority of them have gone to SSE. It definitely has my vote considering your future goals and budget constraints.

EDIT: I assume you're aware the undergraduate programme is in Swedish? I think it even requires you to have taken Swedish at a certain level in high school.

 
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A decent amount of the courses are taught using English material anyways so I wouldn't let that factor into my decision, students end up working all over the globe after graduation.

Riga is not regarded as highly as the Stockholm campus as far as I know.

I'm sure there are people who would disagree with me but I believe SSE is more competitive compared to CBS purely based on my own anecdotal evidence (going through interviews and seeing where people have studied and also based on people I know who have gone to CBS and SSE). That being said CBS is still a fantastic school which will give you some great opportunities, but I would personally choose SSE over CBS.

 

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