UCL vs. Uni of Edinburgh for MSc Management
I received offers from both UCL and Edinburgh for the MSc Management programme, and I need some opinions regarding employability after graduation. So far, I've noted down these:
UCL
- Ranked 10th in the World.
- In the City, so probably better networking opportunities.
- The course seems to cater primarily to Consulting (their career services hold seminars almost every week, and its almost always employers from Consulting)
- They don't exist in the FT Ranking nor do they have an AACSB, EQUIS, or AMBA ranking - (does it really matter?)
University of Edinburgh
- Ranked 20th in the World.
- Triple Accreditation
- Graduates seem to be doing much better (from what I see on Linkedin).
- Not in London, so I'm assuming that means not many networking opportunities.
- Not a Target school (semi-target?)
Not sure if this is relevant, I have an Accounting degree from a non-target university and I have about one year of experience working in M&A for a boutique firm in the Middle East.
Would appreciate advice from anyone working in consulting or maybe hiring for consulting firms. If you see a graduate from these universities, with every other variable being equal, who would you take?
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If targeting consulting, go UCL for sure as it is a target/high semi-target for most firms’ screenings.
If you’re interested in finance, most banks differentiate between UCL proper and the business school at the MSc level. The latter isn’t really a target, unlike the main university.
might be wrong, but my consensus is that many universities use their undergrad prestige to attract people toward their masters programmes that rake in cash for the institutions. there was an interesting write-up about USC on this in the WSJ
This is the case with basically every UK business school at the MSc level except LBS (Said, Judge, Imperial, Warwick, etc.). The step-down for UCL is much worse than the other targets.
However, many consultancies don’t care about the differences when doing screening as they only focus on university rather than subject. That’s quite different to finance where subject matters more (albeit not as much as in continental Europe) and more distinction is made in screening between the business schools and the main universities (e.g. Imperial STEM is a strong finance target, Imperial Business School is only a borderline target or strong semi-target except for the specialist climate/health/quant finance and management programmes).
Agreed, the only MSc Uni’s that aren’t a considerable step down from undergrad are LSE, Oxbridge, Imperial and Warwick, the rest you honestly may aswell start to look abroad at HEC, SSE, CBS etc
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