UCL vs UCLA vs Claremont McKenna

I am an international student who recently got accepted into the colleges listed in the title. I personally still do not know what I want to do with my life but I am considering investment banking and I want to know what are your opinions on those colleges and their job prospects in general even if it is not mainly about IB. At UCL I will be studying economics while at CMC I will be either be doing economics and math or economics and engineering where I will receive a degree from CMC and one from Harvey Mudd while UCLA is going to be a math and economics double major. Please say your opinions about the colleges and their respective job prospectus and why. P.S.: I also got into Warwick and UofT but I think one of the unis in the title will surely beat them.

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UCL and U of T are both ranked really well internationally (I think like 20th and 35th). I have a friend at CMC and he loves it. He is in their PPE program which you have to apply for. What do you want in a uni though? UCLA is huge and is in a nicer area of LA while CMC is an hour away from anything. Harvey Mudd has an amazing engineering program, so if you can stick it out, that is great.

 

They all have something special CMC being a liberal arts college, UCLA having world-class departments, and UCL being in London and nearer to my friends. But I mainly care about my job prospectus because after I finish which ever college I want a good job that pays well above anything else.

 

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