University of Warwick
Between WBS and the Warwick Econ department, which is regarded as better for IB recruiting? (For UG)
Also, would be greatly appreciated if anyone could comment on whether Warwick's presence in IB (London/Europe) is overstated or if it truly is a strong uni for a career in IB? Just want to some reassurance lmao
thanks in advance
Both good
Target uni for london - not over rated imo. In general economics is known as a tougher degree vs business schools across the UK but seen people from either at Warwick place well.
Both good
Both good, Econ probably better. Placement is at UCL level, possibly (surprisingly) slightly better in relative-terms recently.
Current econ student at warwick. Both good and have seen people from both place into top jobs. Econ slightly more 'respected' but is a lot harder than most if not all WBS courses. Both will get you where you want to go if you put in the effort in first year towards getting spring weeks
Thanks for the insight. From your experience would you say doing one of the joint honor Econ degrees (EPAIS or econ w/ industrial organization) is of any noticeable disadvantage when recruiting?
Ik course isn't really supposed to matter that much, but given the opportunity would you say its worth attempting to transfer from one of the joint honor courses to straight econ?
Makes no difference whatsoever for recruiting. Moreover doing either of those two can make life easier for you while studying. Doing EPAIS gives you the option of taking the easier econometrics course in Year 2 which saves a lot of stress. Industrial Org means you avoid doing the headache that is the world history module in year 1.
Do you have any idea abt placement at Warwick compared to UCL?
Hi,
Current Warwick student here. In terms of « name on the paper » both WBS and the Econ department will give you the same prospects. Both are well regarded by recruiters all across Europe and London. Overall the total University if Warwick has been placing extremely well in IB and consulting.
However the observation I made during my years there and by talking to various recruiters is that WBS student are in general performing less well during the application process and especially interviews. In comparison, Economics students are seen as better fits. The conclusion i derived from this observation and my many interactions is that in general, economics students have a greater breadth of skills when it comes to recruiting, they are able to solve problems more easily, be more flexible and because they will have learned the technicals necessary to interviews by themselves, they will actually get better answers than business students who are resting on what they learned in classes (very theoretical and kind of opposed to what is expected as answers in interviews). I’d say that the higher quality of teaching delivered to economics student actually position them better while WBS courses tend to be easier and modules are a bit more of « empty vessels of knowledge » where you don’t learn much and don’t develop your skills that much, a bit daunting. Don’t forget also that Economics at Warwick is top in the uk, WBS isn’t.
Hope this helps
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Can I dm you?
Reading above that it makes no difference for recruiting, on the paper that’s true but makes a difference in terms of the quality of applicants. So economics student have a lesser propensity to fail I’d say.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n1vLYhVzGB_g7_eJKCebn21C8dyb7x5r/view
useful to see
is this for what years? or just in total
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