[UG]Cass or University of Bath
Hello,
I am posting this because I don't know how to choose from those two offers I got.
I'm international student, and 20 years old now.
I know the AF ranking in recent years, bath are around the top, but beyond the rank, I don't know if AF program in Bath is a good choice.
I don't know how good is AF program in bath and personally from what I heard and researched, bath is in the same tier with Lancaster or exeter., etc.
However, When we talk about Cass, it sounds like Cass got more reputations/prospects. When we talking about studying to prepare to enter into Financial Sector, Cass is compared with UCL or Warwick.
I'm already 20, and I concerned more about career rather than education. I have already had the expectation that both of universities might be bad at teaching, based on the experience that i had been two years studying in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
(I leave for UK DUE TO my family reason)
City- Cass Business School, BS-Investment and Financial Risk Management
University of Bath- BS-Accounting & Finance (with one Placement Year)
So, any advice and suggestions?
Having had exposure to HE in the UK I believe you are overestimating the strength of Cass (esp at UG level).
Out of your mentioned institutions (all of them), I would rank them as follows (as a way of entry to financial services):
UCL (gets the nod due to the location) Warwick Bath Exeter Cass Lancaster
Bath is a strong school and their placement programme is definitely very good, them placing students with some pretty rad HFs.
Yea, I also heard that Cass is higher regarded at graduate level. However, It's Accounting and Finance Program in the University of Bath. I checked the syllabus and whole courses through all 3 years, I considered AF program in Bath is more Accounting oriented. Besides, I compared to the syllabus from Warwick and LSE on the same program (Those three universities share the top 3 place in AF ranking in UK) I personally thought Bath is not well-depth in either theory or practice.
However, by just looking at the courses, I know what I would be, I would be a trader or financial analyst, but Bath? I dont wanna do audit or tax for my whole life!!! They are boring and neither innovative nor challenging&thrilling!
The major concerns abt AF program in BATH are : 1. they set up the 3 years courses too much accounting oriented, which I don't like. I want to be a trader or something else eventually, not in the BIG 4 for my whole life!!!!
(I know I still have the chance to fix everything up in my master degree, but.....maybe, i'm too much over-thinking. what if I could make it right in the first move and go the shortcuts and save my 3 years? )
Cambridge Oxford Warwick Imperial (COWI), LSE and UCL are the UK targets. As a Warwick student, from all the persons I know (including myself) who are entering banks this round, be it summer or FT; the above unis are the main Front Office targets. From memory of my most recent AC, the split was 3-3-2-1-1 to Oxford-Warwick-Cambridge-LSE-{European target}. Bath seems to be more MO/BO and/or tech. I don't know how the stats look for any of their courses, but they have good City links and a friend of mine is going into GS Ops from his Math programme.
Personally in your position, I'd chose Bath over Cass because they have a strong placement programme. But maybe Cass if you are going to network hard and go to a lot of events to meet professionals.
I would definitely recommend Bath because their placement programme is pretty strong - there are a few companies that offer FO placement years and I know people from Bath who are doing those.
But from what I heard, University of Bath merely has international reputation/prospects.
I checked the syllabus and whole courses through all 3 years, I considered AF program in Bath is more Accounting oriented. Besides, I compared to the syllabus from Warwick and LSE on the same program (Those three universities share the top 3 place in AF ranking in UK) I personally thought Bath is not well-depth in either theory or practice.
However, by just looking at the courses, I know what I would be, I would be a trader or financial analyst, but Bath? I dont wanna do audit or tax for my whole life!!! They are boring and neither innovative nor challenging&thrilling!
The major concerns abt AF program in BATH are : 1. they set up the 3 years courses too much accounting oriented, which I don't like. I want to be a trader or something else eventually, not in the BIG 4 for my whole life!!!!
(I know I still have the chance to fix everything up in my master degree, but.....maybe, i'm too much over-thinking. what if I could make it right in the first move and go the shortcuts and save my 3 years? )
I am a former consultant in London and my firm took from Oxbridge, Warwick, LSE, Imperial, UCL, Edinburgh, King's, and Bath for what it's worth...
The course syllabus doesn't determine what job you will get... However, I will say that from speaking to friends who went to Bath, it does seem like there is a lot less FO recruitment events there but at the end of the day, as long as your application is strong, it doesn't matter. I doubt that CASS has a lot more recruiting events than Bath tbh.
Besides lots of banks hosts events in their offices which you can apply for. And also, you can do Spring Weeks in your first year.
Generally the UK targets are LSE, UCL, Oxbridge, Warwick and Imperial. CASS is not on par with UCL or Warwick but is a solid semi-target nonetheless.
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