IE vs Exeter: Shouldn't IE Be the Clear Winner for IB?

I have several university options, but one comparison genuinely confuses me.

My goal is BB/EB IBPE, and I'm only looking at how much the university's brand actually helps in recruiting.

I already have pre-university IB experience, finance projects, and don't mind networking or building my CV myself, so I'm not asking which school carries a lazy student better. I'm asking which one gives an ambitious student the stronger platform.

Here's what doesn't make sense to me:

IE is consistently ranked around Top 20 globally for Business & Management, while Exeter is around #150 globally overall. Yet whenever I ask people (and even AI) they keep putting IE and Exeter surprisingly close for undergraduate IB recruiting because Exeter is embedded in the UK recruiting pipeline.

Am I overestimating IE's undergraduate brand, or is Exeter's pipeline just stronger than I thought?

If your only objective was maximizing your chances of BB level recruiting, which would you pick, and why?

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  1. Must everything be written in ChatGPT these days
  2. Global rankings are virtually meaningless
  3. No matter if IE is a better school holistically or domestically, it has to step down a rung because it's a) in Spain which is basically perceived as a second world country and b) not in the UK which means any UK IB seats are limited. London banks don't hire unlimited people from Spanish unis. In reality only a few get a chance. The same is broadly true for Exeter or semi targets (although Exeter is one of the worse semi targets)
 

Durham, Bristol, Nottingham, Bath, King’s, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Bayes, Exeter in no particular order

 

nutmegger189:

  1. Must everything be written in ChatGPT these days
  2. Global rankings are virtually meaningless
  3. No matter if IE is a better school holistically or domestically, it has to step down a rung because it's a) in Spain which is basically perceived as a second world country and b) not in the UK which means any UK IB seats are limited. London banks don't hire unlimited people from Spanish unis. In reality only a few get a chance. The same is broadly true for Exeter or semi targets (although Exeter is one of the worse semi targets)


Not sure what is supposed to be written in Chatgpt here…

 

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