UK Target Unis

How would you ranks the following for job placement in the City:

Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Edinburgh, KCL, St. Andrews, Durham, Nottingham, LSE, UCL, Imperial, Bath, Exeter, Manchester and Newcastle

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Good list, only you're forgetting Cass Business School, Manchester, Edinburgh, KCL and nowadays Loughborough/Exeter in the semi-target bracket.

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you prolly wanna make that post once you actually have offers from all those

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Target: Oxbridge, LSE, LBS, IBS Semi Tier 1: Warwick, UCL Semi Tier 2: Cass Semi Tier 3: Edinburgh, Bristol, Durham, Nottingham

IMHO best placement in UK (especially for non experienced monkeys) is offered by LBS career service.

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"The Original Mark Hannah" Target: Oxbridge, LSE, LBS, IBS Semi Tier 1: Warwick, UCL Semi Tier 2: Cass Semi Tier 3: Edinburgh, Bristol, Durham, Nottingham

IMHO best placement in UK (especially for non experienced monkeys) is offered by LBS career service.

Warwick imho is at the same level of Imperial. May I ask why did you rank it as semi-target? Every bank recruits on campus, and lots of students land IB internships.

One more question: could you explain what are your basis for addressing LBS as the best career service? Pure curiosity here, I am considering the MFA or MiM for 2018 intake but am still unsure (MFA is quite new, no statistics yet).

Thanks!

 

Cuz I ranked WBS as strong semi only due to their location. Is a great school, no doubts. A lot of OCR and the brand equity's strong.

Anyway, LBS has a career service that go over these Unis, especially if you haven't work experience. They have a lot of partners, OCR, workshops, events and so on. Try to ask to some guys there and they'll share to you their experience. If you know the London job market you'd trusted me

Cheers

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Its good.

But Warwick Econ/Maths/MORSE

are like the only times Warwick is considered a target. WBS is good however 

 

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