UK Investment Banking Targets

I was going through wso and came across this list of UK target Universities for IB as ill be applying to uni this year I just wanna make sure that this list is accurate and help out the other monkeys looking to apply to uni as well. 

Top Target: Oxford, Cambridge, LSE

Target: UCL, Warwick and Imperial

Top semi-target: Durham

Semi-target: Bristol, Nottingham, KCL, Edinburgh, Bath, Exeter and St Andrews

Prominent non-target: Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, York, Cass and Loughborough

If anyone could verify this it would be very helpful

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Targets:

Oxbridge, LSE, Imperial, UCL

Semi-targets:

Warwick > Durham, Nottingham, Exeter, Bristol

If you’re not a diversity candidate, I’d very much try to get into one of the targets. Recruits from semi-targets are almost always diversity, with the exception of Warwick.

 

I agree I should have been more precise. LBS is a target for postgrad (as they only do that) while LSE I would say both (undergrad and postgraduate). UCL and Imperial are targets at undergrad level. 

 

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