LSE bsc finance vs Cambridge Ba Land Economy

Do whichever one you find most interesting.

A bit insane choice to even think about LSE here. At Cambridge you will have a great social life with 24/7 life at your college, people around you who have actual interests beyond getting a job after uni and great opportunities to do extracurriculars and get educated in a 1-to-1 (/2) setting. At LSE, you have 100 students per tutor at lectures instead of 1 at a supervision, just going to classes 9 to 5 and otherwise living in London like everyone else (with the usual pitfalls involved, scheduling to see friends instead of knocking on their doors etc.) and everyone does banking or other career societies as extracurriculars (will never understand why that is) - people going into banking/consulting at Cam are much more likely to do debating or anything else. Can't imagine a simpler choice

First of all if you have offers for both, congratulations, they’re both great courses although for IB I would hands down say LSE is the better pick - It’s highly respected on the street, and Land Economy (despite being at Cambridge) really isn’t tbh. Not that I agree with it, but people often joke at it being back route into Cambridge

please take Cambridge, you will regret otherwise

Previous bsc finance student here. i would highly recommend it, it is one of the only courses at LSE which has a very close-knitted culture. everyone on the course knows and are good friends with each other, and the department sponsors several get togethers and socials, we have the highest budget per student out of any lse department. Placement in finance is top tier if you do everything that is required (societies, sports, ECs, work experience etc.) and have a good overall profile. We had a good amount of students ending up directlu on the buyside out of undergrad

the outcomes will be similar, oxbridge no longer has a monopoly over IB/PE due to dominance by europeans in london

bear in mind london is an expensive city however you will be able to off cycle and summer intern much more easily

Cambridge. LSE has good placement as the students are a bunch of Nepo and private school kids. This and last year a lot struggled to even land springs yet alone summers. Cambridge will give you a better name for everything including MBB. Want more options go for Cambridge, want to only break into IB then you could pick LSE. 

I go to the LSE and study a ‘worse’ reputed course and have secured springs/internships whilst being incredibly happy. The key is to live in halls, surround yourself by people who aren’t obsessed with careers (i.e. in sports teams talking careers is generally taboo) and push yourself when recruiting.

I can’t speak much on Cambridge, but have heard there isn’t that much to do socially outside of sports, other than the ‘formals’ (which LSE still has, but in lesser quantities). 
 

Having said that, I imagine the academic rigour due to the tutorial system is better at Cambridge, so if you are really engaged with your subject or want to use it in your career, it’s probably the better choice.