UK University Finance Placement Rankings – Analyzing IB, PE, HF, HFT, and MBB Data (LSE, Oxbridge, Warwick, Semi-targets etc.)
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A couple of takeaways
Good content, need to see more of this on this website
Appreciate it.
Yeah, LSE and KCL are definetely skewed. I noticed it almost immediately when collecting the data, and from what I could tell it stems from the fact both these unis offer some of the largest summer programs as well as increasingly expanded and in-demand postgraduate degrees. This means that more "finance motivated" students who attend lesser universities, and want King's/LSE on their resume and thus attend a summer program or if they can a postgraduate course. In terms of King's specifically, they definitely have a strong brand even though their reputation is falling, and this attracts a lot of international students who then are able to place into HF in their home countries. Unfortunately, Sales Navigator won't let you further filter schools so impossible to get better segmented data.
And yes, the Exeter - JPM Apprentice pipeline is definitely bolstering BB numbers.
If I put an LSE summer program on my linkedin, yet actually take a bachelor at another program not in your list and work at say a BB, do I end up in your grouping?
Respect for the time and effort put into this
Get a life…
This ranking doesn’t work as the only thing that should matter is the roles landed on a % basis.
Moreover, American BBs are better than EBs in Europe. So American BB should be 2.5-3; EBs should be 2, and European BBs 1.5
There’s very little HF intake out of uni in London so doubt the usefulness of inclusion, moreover this will favour unis that are very computer science focused like Imperial since those are the profiles that get into HFs after uni (otherwise you need to get into IB or equity research).
For VC, it’s a little skewed because the VCs that recruit out of know are not the best ones (you usually need experience to get into Sequoia).
All of this to come down to the obvious: Oxbridge/LSE are the best, followed by UCL ICL Warwick etc.
first of all, not sure why you've taken my post as a personal insult and decided to respond like this, i suppose your uni is not highly ranked. This was the very first iteration of the rankings, since then i've fixed a lot of the formulas and weightings, which has moved around the rankings quite a bit, so yes the ones above are not accurate. Have also introduced an elite placement percentage. In terms of the EB vs BB in EU and US, I've added an adjustor to all EU schools, what ive done is looked at the exact percentage of hires working in eu vs us/uk. then for each roles it dynamically calculated, for example BB IB at IE (70% working in EU), theres 100 entry level. The formula operates as : 70 x (Eu Weight) + 30 x (US/UK weight) . In terms of ur HF point, the point of the rankings is to look at not just entry level - vp roles and new hires, but also those in senior roles. Ur point otherwise makes no sense, if I include entry level HF roles than it skews in favor of ICL, but if I don't it would skew against ICL and other quant heavy schools. As obviously not everyone can place into a HF right out of UG, but that doesn't mean they can't eventually end up there. The point is it should be representative of all of the top fields across High Finance, discluding some because only a few schools place into is nonsensical.
Again, not sure why you're so quick to criticize when I put this together in an afternoon in my free time and then decided to share it with others (figures that your hiding behind an anonymous profile)
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