What is KCL good for?

It's fun to watch self-delusion on the sidelines


brb, Imma get the popcorn, don't continue the show without me

Are you saying you know more that the Professors in Harvard, Stanford etc?

Its not like if Warwick has any international reputation. And it is definitely not in the class of LSE.

The comment by lesbionic is the kind of childish ignorance that is confidently delivered frequently seen on TSR.?

No, you meretricious fool, it's the kind of comment that a KCL student would make. I'm in the law school, and I think it's perfectly obvious that the school is just more prestigious than the rest of the university, except for medicine (I'm presuming you don't known, but medicine pretty much has its own campus at Guy's).

I didn't say it's in the league of Brunel/University of Romford etc. It's perfectly good! But it's no better than say, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham - all great universities but lacking the 'wow' factor.

That said, I love King's with all my heart - everything works so smoothly here, the staff are fantastic and lovely (in law anyway) and the facilities are unbeatable.

Plus for law, there's nowhere else that I'd want to be - you get to walk by the RCJ everytime you go to the Chancery Lane library!

Its not the kind of comment that a KCL student would make, just the kind of obnoxious response you would expect from a Law student.

No, you meretricious fool, it's the kind of comment that a KCL student would make. I'm in the law school, and I think it's perfectly obvious that the school is just more prestigious than the rest of the university, except for medicine (I'm presuming you don't known, but medicine pretty much has its own campus at Guy's).

I didn't say it's in the league of Brunel/University of Romford etc. It's perfectly good! But it's no better than say, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham - all great universities but lacking the 'wow' factor.

That said, I love King's with all my heart - everything works so smoothly here, the staff are fantastic and lovely (in law anyway) and the facilities are unbeatable.

Plus for law, there's nowhere else that I'd want to be - you get to walk by the RCJ everytime you go to the Chancery Lane library!

I was reading the comments section in a link posted by Focus08. I saw a comment from a person claiming to be experienced (not verifiable though, but I can't seem to see any benefit why the person will be untruthful) which states exactly what I have been trying to say here about historical reputation.

http://news.students.efinancialcareers.co.uk/NEWS_ITEM/newsItemId-16753-startRow-1



Commentator: Present and Correct, Capital Markets, Tue 06 Jan 09

"Cass (or City as it should be called - the business school cannot hide from the university) is not a top-tier school and ranks well outside the russell group universities and amongst many Polys. I have yet to meet a Cass grad in a front office role. As for the above Oxbridge/'family assets' nonsense, you are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

A place at one of the top 10 universities (by reputation, not newspaper ranking) is good enough, and, broadly, are treated in the following order - Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, and then in a more hazy order - Imperial, Warwick, Durham, Edinburgh, Kings College, UCL, Bristol). The next group of Universities are the traditional redbricks who have suffered a fall in recent years - Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Exeter, Birmingham, York, Glasgow, St Andrews etc. After this, and really skimming the dege of acceptability for Banking jobs (ie. entry requirements may not include any A's at A-Level) are Loughborough, City, Reading, Newcastle, etc.

Most of the people I work with (75%), in a front office role, went to one of the top 10 Universities and maybe the next 20% to Manchester, Liverpool etc."




My opinion is still that, in the real world, the reputation of the university has more weight and the top 10 by reputation will have LSE at 3rd place behind Oxbridge unlike league tables.

Dude we've got a trader on the Equity finance desk that went to Westminster? What's your point? Of all the unis you mentioned above, only Oxbridge/LSE/UCL/Imperial/Durham and none from the other unis made the cut in the AC for the Trading Graduate Trainee program.
If you make the money NO-ONE will give a damn about your uni. Kings/Cass/Manchester...they're all in the same league, i.e. not top tier. I don't give a damn about someone's background.