Bath econ + placement for consulting/IB
I recently got into Bath for economics with placement year. I understand that Bath is considered a semi-target but I was wondering about the quality of its placements (some guy said they have exclusive relationships with Citi) and how it would stack up against some of my other choices (UCL International Management, Warwick Economics and Management) when it comes to recruiting IB or consulting. I'm particularly interested about how it compares to UCL because I haven't found much information about the program I'm applying for, which is relatively new and based at the SoM, not the Bloomsbury campus.
Appreciate any advice I can get!
It’s worse than UCL in every way. Hope that helps.
Do you mind elaborating why that is also the case for UCL's SoM? I know that UCL is a tier above Bath but I'd imagine if I were based at the SoM instead of the Bloomsbury campus, I'd lack the same accessibility to clubs/networking events that my peers in fields like econ or management science might have
How far is the school of management from the main campus? I don’t think it will matter that much if you can just take the train.
Warwick econ + management > UCL management > Bath econ.
Warwick beats UCL here because they are similar levels of target (UCL kids will cry about this) but management students are perceived as a bit dumb so doing econ helps. Bath is a good semi-target but not the same as Warwick/UCL.
UCL campus makes no difference as you can still attend networking events on the main campus and networking isn’t very important in the UK anyway.
Final point is that you’ll get a traditional campus experience at Bath or Warwick but not UCL. Some people love uni in London, but many don’t enjoy it.
Thanks so much for the insight! Really appreciate it
I have to disagree with the guy above. Both Warwick and UCL are great, but UCL is definitely more prestigious. UCL is a clear-cut target, whereas Warwick fluctuates between being the lowest of the targets to being the best one out of semi-targets. Just look at last year’s MBB or GS/JPM/MS FO placements and you’ll see what I mean. Bath is also strong, but it’s on the same level as Bristol and Durham which are upper semi-targets.
I’m actually at MBB and our latest cohorts were much more Warwick heavy than UCL heavy. I don’t track placements across the rest of MBB and IB so it’s just one data point, but makes me doubt that there is any statistical significance between outcomes at the two.
Maybe I have a bias about Warwick not being an MBB target, but from what I’ve seen over the last five years, the dominant recruitment trend has been Oxbridge first, then LSE, Imperial, and UCL. Warwick seems to place better than Bristol, Durham, Bath, or King’s — no surprise there — but not on the same level as LSE, Imperial, or UCL. If it really places on par or better than UCL, that’s great.
May I ask how is the semi-target representation within your cohort? Do Durham/
Bristol/Bath/King’s/Edinburgh, etc. send an 'okay' number of grads into MBB at the entry level?
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