Bachelors at LSE or Imperial for IB?

I've been fortunate enough to be offered places for 2024 Entry for LSE BSc Finance and Imperial BSc Economics, Finance and Data Science but am struggling to be able to pick between the two.

For me the balance is greater course/university prestige for LSE and a "better" alumni network, but I find the course slightly more interesting at Imperial. I also would appreciate any advice on how people who went to either university/did LSE Finance (Imperials EFDS is a brand new course - I'd be the second cohort) found the experience/culture.

Thank you in advance for the help. 

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Thank you. I had a conversation with a Finance First Year last week and the LSE Spring Week Culture was definitely a huge selling point for me, so that's the way I have been leaning.

The more quantitative side of the Imperial course was appealing, but if I want to get into Quant I'll be doing an MFE anyway, and I think both courses will put me in an equally good position for that.

 

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