What is IB/MBB recruiting actually like out of Oxbridge?
I was recently accepted to Oxford unconditionally to study a middle-of-the-road degree (think history/philo/e.t.c) and was wondering what recruiting is like for non econ/ppe/maths students.
Though I've heard historically many students with similar degrees have broken in, i've spoken to a number of current/recent grads from oxbridge who've stated that the uni doesn't give as significant a boost over non-targets compared to US T20s. The general sentiment around BB/EB/MBB recruitment for oxbridge seems to be one of randomness.
I've applied to numerous T20's/Top LAC's in the US, and I'm interested as to whether recruiting out of Oxbridge is comparable in difficulty to that of Targets in the US.
Are you talking about Bachelor or Master's degree?
Banks in USA don't hire master's, while those in UK do, and they hire more master's than bachelors, anecdotally.
Banks in USA do hire a lot bachelors, while those in UK also do, you are competing with European masters who have 3-4 M&A internships and can speak 3-4 launguages.
So for me, the US is hands down the better option either way.
this was for undergrad particularly. yeah that makes sense re EU/Masters competition. I would 100% take any of HYPSM over Oxford but interested as to whether that extends to recruiting out of top LAC's/other T20's
Recruiting out of a top LAC (t5) right now, it is very hard unless you are HYP+ imo. Connections are response rates are way better, and as such referrals go much farther. With that, being at a semi/non-target immediately sets you back in some processes.
Some banks like centerview love to hire from oxbridge particularly in the uk
Just adding onto this: Centerview has dedicated "super-days" at Oxbridge where they will ONLY interview Oxbridge candidates. And this is the only way you can make it to the next round of interviews
Studied one of these degrees at LSE and know every year's cohort have some people placed into placed into BB IB / S&T, so I would imagine the situtaion at Oxbridge would be similar/even better? My impression is that sample size is rather small but it's definitely doable. Cannot comment on the US situation tho.
Makes sense thank you. Were any on-campus recruiting events restricted to students from econ/management/e.t.c?
Currently 1st year maths at Oxford. All of the recruiting events are open to everyone I believe and they are typically advertised through the finance clubs on campus and/or Oxford's official career page. The only event that I've seen partially restricted to E&M is World Bank?
I accepted a role at a BB for this summer in IBD
I only saw 1 person from Oxford and 1 person from Cambridge
a lot of LSE, a few UCL, a few Imperial and a number of European masters' students.
There was a thread about this recently about how Oxbridge is a good uni but it doesn't have the recruiting culture of those listed above. YMMV.
How many LBS?
none that I know of yet in my cohort but I know several MiF students who interviewed and didn't get in.
This comment is the only one that's rooted in reality. Even a simple linkedin search check would show that London schools dominate, and oxbridge in absolute numbers are not the top in UK BBs. There's an interesting article about the actual counts somewhere here https://app.1learner.com/insights
Oxbridge no doubt is in a league of its own, but their placements don't look strong because they don't have the application culture that other London unis have. LSE places so many people because a first-year economics lecture theatre has more people refreshing Trackr than listening to the lecturer. If you're serious about applications and go to Oxbridge, you should do fine
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