Lse, Exeter or Warwick for economics?

The high number of international students at LSE and it's reputation for having a bad social side really doesn't warrant turning down an offer to study economics there! I've looked around LSE as it's right next door to King's and it's not the most exciting campus. As another poster above said it's literally just a couple of streets. However, you'll be getting a top class education at LSE (although I've heard it's not as great at undergraduate level) and it will no doubt open a huge amount of career opportunities for you. Also, going to LSE does not necessarily mean you will have a terrible university experience. It's based in the centre of London so you'll have plenty of things to do and places to go outside of the university bubble. I would recommend applying to the intercollegiate halls of residence once you've firmed LSE. You'll be able to mix with other UoL students who are going to UCL, King's etc so we'll show you a good time if your LSE buddies aren't up for hanging out after a lecture. Exeter is lovely, but for economics I think you'd be very foolish to pick it over LSE. If you have a huge dislike for London then maybe opt for Exeter or Warwick, but I really think you'd be passing off an amazing opportunity.

Visit all three, but pick LSE.

I think the undergraduate 'LSE' experience is probably synonymous with that of New York University (NYU) here in the states. NYU consists of a couple building scattered around lower Manhattan and doesn't really offer the traditional four-year college experience that most American college students enjoy. The fact that NYU does not have a real campus means that it lacks the "college feel" of going to a big central campus in a college town. Thus, the social scene is basically New York City, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you are independent-minded and would prefer living in a big city as opposed to a college town.

I personally prefer going to a school with a big campus. It makes the school feel "whole" and is a wholly unique experience that is unlike anything else. I wouldn't mind going to a school like NYU or LSE for postgrad, but I think you miss out on something in life if you don't get to experience going to a big university with a central campus.

Why? because of LSE's name? Personally for me university isn't just about the grad prospects and i personally would never go to a London based university (i live in London) let alone a non campus uni, i can easily tell that id hate it straight away. I would certainly not have 3 bad years of my life just to go to LSE.

I would go Warwick. Good academically, although not as good as LSE but from what I have heard a far better experience.

I did that actually and met many people on my course who did the same.

No way mate. Not for undergrad Econ at LSE. My mind would explode. Your profile says you're at Cambridge so you must be talking postgrad which is a different ball game. And what course are you talking about...not undergrad Econ regardless

Na, I know Warwick is an awesome uni especially for Economics. It depends what you want to go into probably.

No no no no no no no no no no no no no!

Teaching quality is **** at the LSE. One thing you are virtually guaranteed not to get there is at undergraduate level top class education, at least in terms of teaching (although econometrics is taught well :P). It has its reputation because of its research, as do most 'top' undergraduate universities - and yes I am at one for economics...

I would choose between LSE and Warwick: LSE is slightly better for reputation but the difference is marginal in the world of employment, both courses are very similar.

This demonstrates your misunderstanding of the point. The teaching for all subjects at lse is of the same quality (given normally sized courses) but has a very high variance, basically its very hit and miss.

Given its clearly sub par to both oxford and cambridge it is exactly the same as all other unis out there. The only reason it has such reputation is that lse students bitch the most about it since they feel they should be special since they got in, when in fact they dont realize how the teaching is the same across the board and is only different at a select few decentralized institutions.

I would say econometrics is the exception because the lecturer who teaches it is so exceptional, but the seminar tutoring is awful. The reason the LSE is different in this respect is that there are so many foreign students whose grasp of English is quite frankly limited.

It is therefore not the same as other universities out there: I have asked friends at Warwick/ Bristol and Durham how often they get a seminar tutor who can't speak English and none of them ever have done, so the LSE is an exception BECAUSE the seminar tutors barely speak English quite often and this is not copied across UK universities.

Given its clearly sub par to both oxford and cambridge it is exactly the same as all other unis out there. The only reason it has such reputation is that lse students bitch the most about it since they feel they should be special since they got in, when in fact they dont realize how the teaching is the same across the board and is only different at a select few decentralized institutions.

I would say econometrics is the exception because the lecturer who teaches it is so exceptional, but the seminar tutoring is awful. The reason the LSE is different in this respect is that there are so many foreign students whose grasp of English is quite frankly limited.

I would say econometrics is the exception because the lecturer who teaches it is so exceptional, but the seminar tutoring is awful. The reason the LSE is different in this respect is that there are so many foreign students whose grasp of English is quite frankly limited.

It is therefore not the same as other universities out there: I have asked friends at Warwick/ Bristol and Durham how often they get a seminar tutor who can't speak English and none of them ever have done, so the LSE is an exception BECAUSE the seminar tutors barely speak English quite often and this is not copied across UK universities.

Well actually my econometrics lecturers and seminar tutors don't speak fluent English with the formers English being very hard to grasp most of the time. I think we'd need further evidence than a few friends from different unis that LSE was in fact an exception.

I think your last point would be very hard to prove, its more reasonable to conclude that the teaching of LSE (and other institutions) varies rather than the expectations of students across Universities. i.e a statement of 'Uni X lecturers are bad due to Uni X lecturers generally being bad' is more sensible than that of 'Uni X lecturers are more or less equal to those of other universities due to Uni X students having different expectations of lecturers compared to the rest of the UK'

Im basically saying that the expectations of Students across universities are similar.

Thats a crazy assumption to make.