UK Employability: Masters in Durham or Exeter? For BB/Big 4 in London/Europe

Master's offer holder for MSc Finance at Durham and Exeter. 

Grew up in Asia, I know very little about UK/EU finance recruiting market and would appreciate any guidance/thoughts. 

Would preferably like to start in London in fin services/big 4.

Thanks! 

4 Comments
 

I think for big 4, these are probably on an equal footing. However, if you’re looking at IB and high finance roles in general, I think you’d need to look at more Oxbridge/LSE/ICL.

 

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