European Undergraduate Target Schools Tier List (2022 Updates)

Hi all, I am creating this classic to help young monkeys in their process in transmutation into monkeys. Since there is no body that releases world rankings for bachelor's degrees I thought I would do it myself.

The ranking is done according to reputation and placement on linkedin (I am a Bocconi alumni who is now AN1 from EVR).

Level S++ (Super Objective)

Oxbridge

LSE

ESSEC

ESCP

Level S+ (Objective)

St. Gallen (only for DACH)

Bocconi

IE (only for Spain)

Imperial (only for STEM)

Tier A+ (Low Target to Top Semi-Target)

RSM

WHU (only for DACH)

ESADE (only for Spain)

EDHEC (only for France)

Tier A (Low low Target to Top Low-Target)

EmLyon (only for France)

Warwick

What do you guys think? Let me know and I will make the necessary changes if they are generally shared.

73 Comments
 

very inaccurate since there is no such thing as ”european” target schools. some schools place better in certain regions i.e. Warwick places better in London than most of the schools you listed

 

Not really. It doesn’t matter a the end of the day. The only city I care about is London lol. I just find it funny I haven’t heard of some of these at all.

 

evercore is one of the shittiest firms in London, no wonder retards like OP get in.

 

ESSEC and ESCP don’t belong to the S-range. No school in France does beside HEC. Bring them both down to A+

 

Agreed, and correct; thanks to the French education system, the BSc/BBA programmes at grandes écoles aren't targeted. The targeted degree course is the "diplôme de grande école" or MiM, which French students can enter directly (in a way).

To enter it, you'll either need two years' of "classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles" (if you're French) or a bachelor's degree (if you're not).

The one exception is ESCP, which allows non-French students to enter the MiM programme in the same way as French students via their pre-master year.

So ESCP can be included in this list (target schools at the undergraduate level) IF you "transfer" to ESCP to do the pre-master year and then the MiM.

 

I live I Spain and IE is not in the top 3 Target UNDERGRADUATE (not masters) schools. Just check some linkedin of non IE masters students compared to universities like ICADE, ESADE, and CUNEF. IE undergraduate is too easy and non intensive. I have many friends there. Esade is good tho

 

IE undergrad is a joke, target schools in Spain are ICADE, ESADE, CUNEF and Carlos III in that order. It’s also pretty elitist so 90% will come from the first three since they’re private

 

Thought I'd come up with an alternative list based on what I've observed in London. Cannot speak for other major European financial centres. I would think of all the below as "target" schools.

Tier 1

  1. Oxford/Cambridge
  2. LSE
  3. Bocconi
  4. LBS
  5. INSEAD
  6. HEC

Tier 2

  1. UCL
  2. St. Gallen
  3. Imperial
  4. ESSEC
  5. ESADE
  6. Ecole Polytechnique

Tier 3

  1. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  2. IMD
  3. EM Lyon
  4. Warwick
  5. ... and the top university in small European countries (think SSE, Rotterdam, CBS)
 

Ok so you don't mean bachelor, because many of the universities you mentioned only have master's degrees. I am an ex biem and mim Bocconi alumni but I can tell you that in my opinion the university no longer competes with the first tier (because it doesn't renew, it remains the same).

 
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Thought I'd come up with an alternative list based on what I've observed in London. Cannot speak for other major European financial centres. I would think of all the below as "target" schools.

Tier 1

  1. Oxford/Cambridge
  2. LSE
  3. Bocconi
  4. LBS
  5. INSEAD
  6. HEC

Tier 2

  1. UCL
  2. St. Gallen
  3. Imperial
  4. ESSEC
  5. ESADE
  6. Ecole Polytechnique

Tier 3

  1. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  2. IMD
  3. EM Lyon
  4. Warwick
  5. ... and the top university in small European countries (think SSE, Rotterdam, CBS)

Trash ranking

 

INSEAD and Bocconi above Imperial (a top 10 uni) what a joke...

plus Imperial is in London, more people apply there than anywhere else just because of location

 

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