Hi all, I've been fortunate enough to receive offers from HEC and LSE, and I think I have a good chance of receiving an offer from LBS to study GMiM.
Currently, I am aiming to land a summer at a BB or EB. I know all of these schools are fantastic, but how do each of the schools' compare specifically? I personally feel like LSE A&F is slightly inferior to the two others (it almost seems like "I wasnt good enough for MSc Finance). Overall, I am targeting M&A or IB in general.
Furthermore, I speak mandarin fluently, and I think theres a good chance of moving to China for a few years in the future, so the exchange in China for HEC and LBS is very attractive. Long term though, I think I will remain in London as I am a UK citizen.
I would love to hear your guys opinions on these schools!
Would go with HEC. Reasons:
- More rigorous course (You are getting a degree in Finance rather than Accounting)
- HEC places super well. At LSE you compete with 4000 BSc students and MSc hardos while at HEC you are only competing with MiM/MIF and a lot of people from HEC don't even want to go to London so its not as competitive.
- Where did you study before? If you studied in the UK before think living internationally would add more value.
- I see the China link, then LBS GMIM is an obvious move. But would pick HEC > LSE for this point.
- LSE is just academic while LBS/HEC is more practical and focus a lot on networking.
In the end of the day, it is your choice and you have to do it yourself. I graduated from a UK uni 2 years ago (think wwk etc) and did HEC and managed to land an American BB and it was the best decision I ever made.
Thanks for the comments. So I am currently studying accounting and finance at Warwick too and lived in the UK my entire life, so I think my position is nearly identical to you actually.
My main concerns are that France's covid situation is quite a bit worse than the UK's currently, and I think a lot of my family are unsure if I can attend in person my September.
To be honest, I am probably leaning more towards HEC as a result, and thanks for your insight!
The biggest challenges you will have at HEC are that the focus is on the Grand Ecole and that you don't speak French. To blow each point out a bit (HEC MBA Alum here)
1. Most companies come to HEC looking for the Grand Ecole. They are the creme de la creme and most alumni are from this program themselves
2. Even though all of the instruction is in English, and you can try to network in English (to varying degrees of success), the strongest part of the alumni will be Francophone. Given the short length of the program, I would say if you don't speak it at a B2 level already, you are going to be severely limited in networking.
Just my Penny for the Guy
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