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The truth is that only individual firms's HR departments know for sure what universities sit on their target lists.

 

There’s already like 500 threads on university rankings brother, just check those…

 
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the list is as follows targets: oxbridge,lse>imperial>ucl>warwick

semi targets: durham, bath(placements) , bristol+ notts (mainly for the economics course) , edinburgh , st andrews, kcl, exeter

semi/ non targets:manchester, york, bayes business skl , qmul

uni probably doesnt matter as much as your strategy /preparation nowadays but still getting into a target helps

 

honestly idk- i think domestic unis have a bit of preference but i believe bocconi, hec, stgallen probably are at the same level as the ‘semi target’ uk unis for ug. dont hold me on that though- the only people that actually know are the firms.

 

yea i dont deny manchester does get placements- i just think the ratio of placements to students is pretty low- eg ucl has around the same amount of students as manc but definitely places more people into ib

 

Don't be so cocky, it is not a great look at all.

Please delete your name from your account. And your profile picture.

Some people on here will try to help you, others are not nice people and may make things unpleasant for you. You should keep an anonymous online presence.

 

Usually at my firm:

50% = HEC LSE LBS Oxford Cambridge 

25% = UCL, KCL, Imperial, other good European unis (Bocconi, ESSEC, EDHEC, St Gallen, etc)

Rest = either good US unis like MIT, Berkeley etc, or some random, low-tier UK unis (thanks dad)

Usually for interns, the European guys are MUCH better than the other interns as they have more experience 

 

Forgot that some of the UK unis sit somehow in between tier 2-3 and regularly place as well: Durham, St Andrews, Edinburgh, etc. 

I’m not British so can’t really assess how good these are (I guess fairly decent in the UK). 
 

In any case, once people are hired I couldn’t care less where they studied as long as they get shit done, have a positive can-do attitude, learn fast and are fun people (ie not finance nerds but normal people with hobbies and some life experience)

Why life experience matters ? - of my 4 interviews to get into my firm a few years ago, I spent 20mn of the first one talking about martial arts, and 15mn of the second one talking about my South American travels. Recently while recruiting, one of the interviewers wanted to introduce me to his brother in law related to another sport I’m practicing. 

 

Thank you for the insight. As it currently stands I'm going to be taking a gap year and reapplying to university so this advice on getting experience is definitely helpful so thank you

 

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