MSc Lse (applied economics) vs MPhil Oxford (economics).

I was just wondering which one these master programs do you think would be more target for financial institutions? I have offers from both and it's difficult to decide.

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For the sake of simplicity I didn't say this initially, but I should have. I will have a corporate banking summer internship in London during this summer.

The Oxford program is 2 years => I would loose my return offer so I need to find a new internship/job.

At LSE it is a 1 year program => I could keep my return offer and potentially move to a "better" division within the bank (seems like a safer option).

My goal for next couple of years is to somehow move towards a better role than corporate banking.

What do you mean by the Oxbridge experience? To be honest, I'd much rather go to Oxford, however the internship makes the decision difficult…

 
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Take the Oxford offer if you want to do IB FO, it will be easier to get a internship for summer 2024 and then convert that to a full time offer. 80% of IB analyst class in London comes from summer programmes so it will tougher to recruit out LSE one year programme esp if you do not have IBD internship experience.

It is unlikley you will be able to convert corporate banking offer into IBD full time, what is more likely is you can network and get fast tracked for IB summer internship for next summer.

 

So you would say that it’s easier to get into IB by using my corporate banking internship + Oxford master to get an IB internship than to potentially move within the bank from Corporate banking to IB, after I start full time? (For reference this is a BB bank)

 

Could always ask if they will defer the start of the ft. Worst case they say no and you have oxford+your prior internship on the CV to try land an ib sa

 

I think that would be the first thing to do now. Agreed. I have the contact of the HR person who gave me the details of my offer. They said I can contact them anytime. It's not too direct to ask them about deferring (a hypothetical ft offer), is it?

 

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