Well,
Finally I got the offer I needed, but I'm struggling to decide which one to choose:
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CASS MSc Energy, Trade and Finance
Pros: great and flexible program with a lot of electives, massive placement in O&G, really finance focused
Cons: Really high tuition fees (25k) -
UCL MSc Global Management of Natural Resources (offered by the School of Management and the department of chemical engineering)
Pros: UCL brand name, really cheap (14k), a lot of trips and seminars with 5 months to be spent in Australia at UISA (Adelaide)
Cons: really quantitative, lack of finance modules (weighted by few mgmt courses), quite new
Goal would be to end in MM/BB O&G/NatRes M&A, or at least O&G/commodities trading (eg Glencore)
Also got offer from the ESCP's Energy Management course but it seems slightly below Cass and UCL in terms of modules and reputation (in the UK)
Cheers
Poor guy, every other comment says something differnet, lol! I know how it feels, I was in the same situation a few months ago. Not sure if this helps, but I'll leave this quote here by Josh Angrist:
"...if we compare people who went to, say, private colleges--think about perhaps Boston U.--versus U. Mass. (University of Massachusetts), or even Harvard or MIT (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology) versus U. Mass., naively you'll see that the people who went to the private colleges earn a lot more. But conditional on where people were admitted, they do about equally well. There's no advantage. And that suggests that most of the observed difference, perhaps all of the observed difference in earnings between people who went to private and public universities is due to the fact that the people who went to the private universities were destined to do better anyway; they were on average people who were either more ambitious or had higher test scores."
See an example of sucha an article here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17159
I.e. since you got admitted to two good schools, don't sweat it too much. It means you have good abilities and are probably going to succeed if you keep on doing your thing. So if the 10k matters a lot to your budget, go for the cheaper school
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