King’s College London Open Week 12-16 March

Hello KCL, I am currently holding an offer for your Business Management course. I was wondering about the internships and job opportunities at KCL. I am reading a lot of forums and most Master's degrees require some job experience so does the department of management help students to get a job in the business, financial and marketing areas. This would really help me decide where I want to go. Thanks in advance!

E: Since there are students now as well I want to add something to my question(that's directed to students in the management department):

The department of management is a relatively small department so would you say that this is a good thing? How many people attend lectures on average? What's the ratio of international:europe students?

Hi
I've accepted an offer for MA Public Policy starting this September. At the moment I'm in the final year of my undergraduate degree. Is it common for people to go straight into postgrad after their undergrad degrees? I'm worried about being at a disadvantage if I'm the youngest person there and everyone else has got years of work experience.
Thanks in advance!

hi (sorry i have lots of questions )

around how many people tend to live at home during first year? would i be alone if i did?
is there anything i can do to increase the chances of getting some form of accomodation? i dont get priority for accomodation so i'd just get whats left over, but i'd rather move out for uni
is there any assistance for med students travelling out to clinical placements - some of them are really far out and travelling by train is kind of expensive!
not sure if you'd be able to answer this one, but do you have a rough estimate of how much it costs each year for a student, living at home? (including books, travel, food etc)
do students in one subject mix with eachother at the uni (not just in halls) or do they tend to stay separate?
does using the library/borrowing books cost money? are any textbooks available online?

sorry for the bombardment!

hello! im wondering how hard it is to get accepted into King's College postgraduate programme China& Globalisation. Im a Dutch student, getting my bachelors degree in July 2012. Its an HBO degree, in English i think its called University of Applied Sciences. Im now studying Chinese as my major, with other courses focussing on marketing and communication. My average grade is 7,87 (on a scale of 1-10) from year 1-4. I have been to China a few times already, studying in Beijing for 6 months and currently living in Shanghai for my internship.
I still need to do the IELTS test, but i'm not expecting major problems with that.

What are my chances of getting accepted into the programme?
Can I also apply for the programme even if I do not have my degree and my IELTS yet (I will receive my degree in July, I can do the IELTS test in Shanghai)? Or should I wait until I have all the documents?
I am afraid that if I apply somewhere in July, my chances of getting accepted will be lower. Is this true?
When does the academic year 2012-2013 start?

thanks !

Hello KCL,

Thanks for doing this btw.

I have an offer for the LLB M100 Law programme - EU Student. Somerset House looks amazing and I was wondering is the Law department now solely based at Somerset and The Strand Campus? What is the situation specifically for the first year, as I am aware that teaching was partly at Waterloo, is this still the case?

Also is it true that places to study Law at Kings have been considerably cut this year and if so is there a specific reason for this?

I will be attending the Open Day on the 28th with one of my best mates who will also probably be studying Law at Kings in Sept. so that is a bonus. We will be escaping the Cyprus army for a few days lol!!

Hi,
It appears so far from this forum that Politics of the International Economy is pretty popular, but do you have any stats on applications : place ratio
or even whether it's average, high or low would be helpful.

I plan to apply to Economics on my other four choices this year, if I applied with an Economics personal statement would this put me at a disadvantage?

Thanks

Hello Chicheto93!

As a first year Business Management student here at King's, let me congratulate you on your offer! I am not sure if you know but the admission to this course is extremely competitive. Last year, there were about 15 applicants for every place! So, well done

Your questions are very good and it is indeed important to know such things when making a decision! I’ll start by answering your question about internships and job opportunities. You are right in realising how important internships are - they can really determine what jobs you get later on. King’s Career Service offers support for us when making applications to internships. They arrange CV workshops, mock interviews, assessment centre practice sessions, and one-to-one advising for free.

When it comes to finding internships, you will have to seek for opportunities independently. The Careers Service does not have such a thing as an internship database and the Management Department understandably doesn’t deal with this directly. This doesn’t mean that you will have to spend days looking for an internship. A lot of firms come to King’s to recruit and encourage us to apply for internships at their offices. Thanks to the awesome location of the uni, King’s students can just drop by Canary Wharf or the City to attend an event at a firm’s headquarters. And we actually do so. It is not uncommonto hear students saying: “There is this networking reception at Deloitte/Ernst & Young/KPMG/etc. Do you wanna come with me?”

The courses we are taking are highly related to jobs in finance, business and marketing (and HR) and so it really provides you with the knowledge necessary to stand out in an internship. A few of my classmates are taking up internships this coming summer even though the main intership season for us is after the second year. We talk a lot to each other about each other’s internship applications and what everyone will be doing during the summer. A lot of students are attending insight days, career events at firms in the City and such and I would say King’s is a good start when it comes to applying to internships. For instance, several classmates of mine, and I as well, got into the PwC first year programme, a three day Insight Academy that could fast track you to an internship for next summer. But this is just one example, I know others who have internships aleady in film sales and distribution, marketing, etc.

Now about the second half of your question: the first year is really different from the second and third year in that all of our lectures have our whole class in them. This means that the four lectures we have weekly all have more than 200 students in them. I would say, usually about 150 show up (at least). Occassionally you can find yourself sitting there with only 50-80 students but that only happens if there is e.g. an exam next dayWe do have tutorials in smaller groups of about 20 though. With this in mind, I have not really experienced whether it is a good thing that our department is small. I think in second and third years it will be different as we will already know half of our professors (there are about 50 overall) and we might be able to create close relationships with them.

You won’t believe how incredibly diverse this course is! I hardly know any British students! I am myself an EU student and there are many internationals too. I could not guess the rate especially because it’s hard to classify people. There are Indians raised in Italy, South Africans raised in France, Portugese who lived in the US, Mexicans who lived in London, etc. One thing that I realised is that, surprisingly, there are not too many Chinese students on our course. Anyway, it is an incredible mix of people, and everyone is just awesome. Everyone is so outgoing and friendly that it really is fun to attend lectures (and then socialise in the break)

I hope I could help, let me know if you have any further questions! And congrats again on your offer!

Hope to see you here next year!
erklam from the King’s team

Hi KCL!

I hope it´s OK that I ask you this question, it´s not about my offer or my programme. I wanted to ask you if you have any information that you can give me about insurance, that is, I´m an overseas student and wanted to know about how I can be insured while I´m studying in London. So if I would end up in the hospital (hope that won´t happen!) or something is stolen from me I would be insured

Do you have any information for me on this subject?

Hi xyl!

Thanks for your message. Yep, the Politics of the International Economy (PIE)degree is proving pretty popular!

Its a bit tricky to give a ratio at the moment because this is a new programme, starting 2012 so I'm not sure we have all the info available right now to advise you accurately. However I have asked my colleague to let me know if there are any figures I can give you and I'll let you know what they say.

Our course are pretty competitive so its important that you put together a strong application. I think an economics slanted personal statement would still stand you in good stead if you applied for PIE too, though obviously you could include some reference to international economics in your statement anyway as this would be important to other economics degrees as well I would imagine!

Hope that helps a bit!

Fra

PS I'll let you know if I can get some exact figures on the applicantions to place ratio!

Hi Fran & Co,

First of all, thank you for taking the time to respond to everyone's questions!

My question is as such: I am currently in a gap year and hold a conditional offer for Politics of the International Economy. Following my January A-Level resits, I now meet the AAB entry requirement. Could you advise on how I can report my new grades to the admissions team? My school said that I won't receive a certificate of my new grades until August, however, I do have official reports from my examination boards that show an increase in my grades. If it helps, my school's Deputy Headmaster and my UCAS referee (among a handful of other teachers) can confirm my new grades.

I suppose I could wait until results day in August, but I rather not leave it that late. Partly because I want some peace of mind () and also because I want to sort out my private accomodation (which I can only do after I get an unconditional).

Any advise will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!


Skay

Dear Skay,
Thank you for your question. So exciting to hear you are on a gap year. I hope you are enjoying your travels

Congratulations on holding an offer with us! If you wish to, you can send your official reports from the examination board through to the Admissions Team using the MyApplication online portal (https://myapplication.kcl.ac.uk/). However, your offer will only become unconditional once the Admissions Team receives your offical A-level results in August. If you have any further questions in regards to this matter feel free to contact us again on Student Room during the week or to use the messaging system on MyApplicationto get in touch with our Admission Officers.

In terms of peace of mind though, if you have met the conditions of your offer, you should be over the difficult bit Just try to enjoy yourself before the hard work starts again once you join us in September!

Laura

Dear MsGmm1,

It’s ok to ask any questions, this is what we are here for 

At King’s we have a team dedicated to supporting international students with a number of issues and queries and they will be able to advise you on whether/how you should take out an insurance when you move to the UK. They should definitely be able to give you the most up to date information on your different options!

The Student Advice & International Support Team can be contacted on +44(0)20 7848 6858 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10.00-16.00 (UK time). They will do their best to assist you over the phone with any welfare query but at busy times it may be necessary to arrange a call back in order to assist with your enquiry. Alternatevely you could e-mail them at [email protected] but you should be aware that emails are not ‘strictly’ confidential so you may prefer to have a chat over the phone instead.

Hope this helps!

Laura 

Hi KCL!

My potential supervisor in War Studies has told me that he accepted my research proposal and official notification is on the way. So I have a couple of questions;

- does notification of admission usually include the funding offer (assuming you will be offered funding), or does that come later?

- when does the fall term actually begin? What's new student induction week like for grad students?

Thanks!

Hi,

The subject specific prospectus links seem to be missing on this page ...
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/ug/download/subjects.aspx

I have some questions regarding the Maths courses MSci G103 and BSc G100 ...

1) If someone starts the Maths MSci then is it possible to transfer to the BSc course at some point (eg at the end of the 2nd year or at some point during the 3rd year)?

2) Similarly is it possible to transfer from the BSc course to the MSci course?

3) Are there any requirements that need to be satisfied in order to be allowed to continue with the 4th year of the MSci e.g. Do you need to be on a 2.1 or better by the end of the 3rd year?

Thanks in advance.