Why Bristol is so underrated in here?
Hi, I'm currently studying in Bristol as an international student. I saw many cases from bristol who went to Big 4 or top IBs and societies have decent connection with top banks. However, when seeing posts in here, l lost my confidence and having fear.... many people says Durham is over Bristol but I actually choose Bristol over durham because of the world rankings and the city vibe. Most of tutors and UK friends said Bristol and Durham has similar reputation to each other. So what I heard from the public and the internet community is totally different..... and looking these posts I started to regret choosing Bristol....is it really true that Bristol is legit shit uni...I thought that it's top uk uni and have a strong reputation overall...just give me honest reviews....
No one has ever said Bristol is a shit uni. Ever. Lol. That's just factually incorrect.
Durham just has better placement, plain and simple. Plenty of people get into good jobs from Bristol. I'd consider it a semi target.
And you're right, I absolutely wouldn't want to live in Durham over Bristol.
Outside of the six targets Durham, Bristol and Nottingham (maybe Bath/ Manchester too) are probably the next best. Getting into IB out of them is an uphill task but definitely do-able. Being from Bristol rather than Durham or the other way around probably isn’t affecting your chances of breaking in tbh
Six targets?
Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, maybe Warwick(?) what are the other 2?
I'll accept LBS masters (even though this is clearly a thread about undergrad), but what are the other ones?
I thnk talking about icl and ucl but I think there's not much difference with warwick or ucl (for LSE ICL Oxbridge yes) I saw so many of our alumni going to top banks and big banks such as HSBC or Standard or even big 4 and they didn't have that much difficulty..
Obviously UCL and Imperial, those six are pretty widely accepted
Which course are you doing?
management goin to 2nd year. I'm trying to get into investment soc as it seems that there are many networking events (alumni) and embassador events from jp Morgan Goldman Sachs Standard charter etc.
Bro it's not that deep man
Big 4 != top investment banks when discussing difficulty getting in hombre
To be honest I think that Bristol might be better than Durham at the moment. Durham kind of fell of. For instance if you compare Durham and Bristol fin soc "execs" which are chosen based on placement then you can see that Bristol does far better in terms of FO placement with most of the "execs" having completed top internships at BB and Durham having completed internships at MM. Moreover on the contrary to Bristol at Durham for FO placement you would have to compete against geography history classics and STEM (especially Natural sciences) students who place most of the time better than econ grads.
Durham finsoc Alumni here(just graduated). This may be the stupidest take I have ever heard but ill bite. Using the metric of 'Placement of finsoc exec' is the dumbest thing you could do and I really do hope you're not a Bristol student because that would say a lot about the iq distribution in that university.
1. We don't superficially pick our presidents based on the perception of prestige( fix your wso brain). We select based on how committed people are to contributing to the society and their ability to lead. the leadership exec which we relinquished the society to are fine examples of this. Our society culture is such that most people join in first year for the decent networking events, secure their placements and then have no further urge to be involved in the society so those we pick as presidents(who are always older) are usually the most passionate.
The difference between us and other unis is that most are closer to London such as Bristol and even notts offer a wider variety of interesting sessions held with professionals so those still involved in later years are there purely for the enhanced experience and not always just raw passion. The logistics of a banker commuting to basically Scotland for a weekday day trip is treacherous and the fact we still got top bb/eb to visits is relatively good evidence of our FO placement.
2. Oxbridge finsoc exec genuinely have a few people with mm placement so this clearly is not a good metric to use if evaluating the overall placement of a uni haha.
3. The leaders we had have almost always historically been bb/eb with the some of the rest of the exec also bb/eb or top AM. cherry picking the one year that we decided to have more variety in the exec Is honestly pathetic
4. What's even more pathetic is bringing up finance societies on wso. The Bristol tracker and its amplified effects on already chronically online Bristol students(usually durham rejects) has been a disaster for the human race.
5. if finsoc exec always had the best placement then the lsesu big pres would pretty much always be gs/bx as every single year there would be at least one student there with such placement.
6. Bristol doing better for FO placement is just a plain lie, not even going to elaborate, not worth my time as this is general knowledge. Hey man, break into the UK top 10 more than once this decade and then perhaps we can return to this conversation :) (p.s. your uk employer isn't assessing world rankings based on research output otherwise this would imply ucl is more of a target than lse mate).
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