Why do US MFE Programs place better into Funds than their U.K. counterparts?

Any insight into why Princeton, Columbia and Baruch etc place far better into hedge fund quant roles in comparison to Imperial MFE, LSE Applied Math, UCL Comp Finance etc...

 

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