I know that the more important factor is doing well etc but ceterus paribus, say for an M&A or restructuring or capital markets role which one wins.
Answers relating to PE also appreciated.
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Econ. Maths is fine, but much more useful for Quant/Trading.
What about STEM vs Econ?
degree doesnt really matter unless its for Quant or one of the highly mathematical S&T desks like Rates Vol or Exotics. For IB they hire all degrees form Oxbridge/LSE/UCL/Warwick/Imperial as long as you are competent and can tlak well.
Nobody really cares. Personally if I could choose again I'd go for maths because you can recruit for quant roles as well. In fact I would argue these days econ is a net negative since firms try and diversify degree backgrounds
There aren't that many econ graduates anyway, a lot of people coming in now are business and finance students...
I mean not really because majority of targets don't offer business or finance degrees. But either way firms treat that as the same thing, and would slightly prefer someone coming from a diverse degree background e.g. chemistry vs another econ/finance drone
What about A+F at the targets. Always debated how this degree is perceived in comparison to econ?
Probably not as great despite the course offering more in relation to IB
dont overthink it. do what you like, get a high GPA, dont be a douche, stop using latin.
its really not complicated.
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