New UCL School of Management vs Imperial
Hi All
I have two offers and need support for my decision.
- UCL MSc Management
- New business school, money is being invested which is good for me - Not accredited yet, not sure if that really matters? - Interesting program - Well-qualified faculty - Great location (Canary Wharf Campus from 2016 on) - Not yet ranked as new, risk if they fail to have a degree which is not worth as much
- Imperial MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Management
- Established business school - Location not as good - Primarily a technical school, not sure about business school - Ranked highly in FT
Both programs are very appealing to me, however, I would like to hear some additional thoughts for my consideration.
My goal after graduating, find a job in management consulting or project management within tech sector. I am also interested in working abroad i.e. Bay Area, NYC ...
I highly appreciate any inputs.
UCL sucks man. Total waste of money(only business programs). I would choose Imperial. By the way, don't have unrealistic expectations. You're not going to get a job in the US with a UK degree, unless it's LBS MBA(they still struggle though). You may do in exceptional cases, like internal transfers. But the OCR and everything is UK focused in UK schools. Employers prefer their own undergraduates in US over a foreigner with a degree unheard of. Imperial is great for Asia though. Mostly because they don't have great business schools, and most of them are Commonwealth countries, so they follow the UK. UK is kind of like a benchmark for them.
Thanks for the inputs. Do you have any specific knowledge as to why UCL sucks?
What does OCR stand for?
Anyone else inputs on the two?
I went to King's. IBanker is right. UCL is a great school. However, their business programs are extremely disorganized, no career support, not very good professors either, and virtually unknown in the business world, and they treat business programs solely as revenue generators hence large amount of not so bright international students(mostly affluent Asians) in their business programs. Imperial is different, and they've improved a lot since they left UoL, a terrible school with which both UCL and King's are affiliated. Imperial Business School is established, has connections, and their professors are some of the best in Academia. If I were you, I would go with Imperial and never look back.
Thanks ChloeJ90.
Can you give me some additional information on what you are basing your knowledge?
From what I can see on their website the faculty is highly distinguished with professors from LBS, Berkeley, Oxford etc.
Also, looking at LinkedIn profiles of alumni of the school many have jobs at the big four and other major companies.
Big 4 is possible even from those "modern" worthless schools like Oxford Brookes. Big 4 is considered to be a safer option for business graduates. And I have who went to one of their Master in Management programs just before the school was established in 2015.
Quick scan of my past (2015 and some 2014 that I knew) classmate's LinkedIn profiles shows that they are working at consulting firms including BCG, Simon Kurcher & Partners, OC&C, Roland Berger, Arthur D. Little, PA Consulting, EY, Deloitte ... Also I see that some ended up in finance (two at J. P. Morgan,one at Greenhill, other one at Orbis hedge fund).
Career support was quite good - they were arranging mock interviews with mostly Big4 recruiters, alumni sessions and networking events on campus regularly. That being said, for a top tier job you need to fight on your own - as anywhere else.
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