Apprenticeship or University

Currently finishing highschool, in the UK, with about 18 months to go.

The plan was to get into a top university, e.g. LSE. After that, attain a graduate position in IB and then look at getting into PE or HF.

But today, I just found out you can get apprenticeships with some big IB firms. The benefits being:

• you get a salary

• No student debt

• You gain work experience

• They're typically shorter than your regular 3-year uni degree.

This sounds too good to be true to me. A couple of examples include Morgan Stanley apprenticeship and Goldman Sachs. J.P. Morgan run some too.

Is this worth looking at, or should I continue the current, traditional route?