(I've posted this also in economics section, i don't know which is the right one, feel free to delete one of the two..)
Hello everyone, i need some advices on choosing my Msc course.
I'm italian (from Bocconi economics Bsc) and i'll get my degree next year, probably a first or borderline 2:1 equivalent of an UK uni.
My aim is to take a good Msc in UK (for various reasons) and eventually get a Phd somewhere.
My choices now are among UCL, Edinburgh, Warwick and Soas.
I's say i'm pretty good but not so much to apply in oxbridge or LSE. Also i don't plan to get a GRE.
I want to take a good Msc, but not excessively maths based. I guess that's also because i'm pretty disillusioned with many of the typical mainstream topics. That's why i'm also considering SOAS.
- In fact SOAS seems to be some kind of an heterodox department, which i would enjoy. But i wonder if SOAS msc is still a good program considering the lack of quantitative skills that probably i would find there? My idea is that maybe it would be better to get there later for the Phd, and now get a more "standard" Msc.
- As now i'm leaned a bit towards Edinburgh, which seems to be a good compromise between the necessity of good quantitative skills and the excess of analytical rigour. Plus edinburgh seems to be a good place to spend one year. The only problem is that it's difficult to see how really their programs are (i.e. the course description is pretty poor, for istance no reference book are listed).
- UCL would be good but i fear it's the most quantitative program i could get among these. Its main plus is that it's in London.
- Warwick seems to be good but honestly i don't feel like living in coventry (don't mean to offend anyone), it seems to be a really sad and foggy environment. I think that would influence my attitude towards uni and could affect my whole experience (and thus my courses results..). For that reason i didn't look so well into their Msc programs.
That's a bit confusionary and ridiculously long.. any more info? Are my ideas correct? A last thing: if i do a Msc somewhere would it be hard to get into a Phd somewhere else? I don't mean to do that in Ivy league or so... just i'm wondering about the relationships between the student and his department: always thought that you do phd where you did your msc but i'm probably wrong.
Thanks a lot everyone