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(Original post by Bloodbath)
Define more traditional.

Most uni chemistry courses are more practical based whereas at oxford its more theoretical

Honestly, I know little about it, it was my dads term - the content of the courses wasn't based enough on the uses of industry and manufactoring, thats all I know.

[MagicNMedicine]

(Original post by stackemup)
To an employer in the financial sector, you have GOD status.

not really, its pretty standard

An employer in financial services isn't going to get all excited and be throwing money at you to get you to join them, just because you're from Oxbridge. Oxbridge grads are ten a penny there.

[Chrisateen]

(Original post by M1011)
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/Caree...ance/Home.aspx

Check out the average earnings on that link

Although granted that is a masters degree and to be honest I think it's a typo (the economics masters average is about half that).

The average graduate salary is £32,652 in 2009/10. However the reason why LSE has such a high average starting salary is because many of the student there go into investment banking and remember there are more postgraduate students than there are undergraduate so postgrads makes the figures even more higher. It also varies by department as well as for example in my department (social policy) the average starting salary in 2009/10 was £20,416 for undergraduates, and £35,140 for postgraduates (just realised I'm above the average salary in my department ).

[Chrisateen]

The university guide has published league tables for 2013 and when i sorted it according to prospects I got the following

1) Imperial - 84%
2) LSE -82%
2) Cambridge - 82%
4) UCL - 77%
5) Bath - 76%
5) KCL - 76%
7) Robert Gordon - 75%
7) Bristol - 77%
9) Cardiff - 74%
9) Durham - 74%
9) Glasgow - 74%
9) Buckingham - 74%

This result shows that the university ranking does not completely go in hand with better job prospects. Other things like location of university, type of courses students study, sectors students want to go into, student's work experience, quality of application for jobs and many other factors can affect whether or not students get a job after graduating

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(Original post by Chrisateen)
The university guide has published league tables for 2013 and when i sorted it according to prospects I got the following

1) Imperial - 84%
2) LSE -82%
2) Cambridge - 82%
4) UCL - 77%
5) Bath - 76%
5) KCL - 76%
7) Robert Gordon - 75%
7) Bristol - 77%
9) Cardiff - 74%
9) Durham - 74%
9) Glasgow - 74%
9) Buckingham - 74%

This result shows that the university ranking does not completely go in hand with better job prospects. Other things like location of university, type of courses students study, sectors students want to go into, student's work experience, quality of application for jobs and many other factors can affect whether or not students get a job after graduating

LOL! Robert Gordon and Cardiff got better job prospects than Oxford!

[funkydee]

(Original post by Chrisateen)
The university guide has published league tables for 2013 and when i sorted it according to prospects I got the following

1) Imperial - 84%
2) LSE -82%
2) Cambridge - 82%
4) UCL - 77%
5) Bath - 76%
5) KCL - 76%
7) Robert Gordon - 75%
7) Bristol - 77%
9) Cardiff - 74%
9) Durham - 74%
9) Glasgow - 74%
9) Buckingham - 74%

This result shows that the university ranking does not completely go in hand with better job prospects. Other things like location of university, type of courses students study, sectors students want to go into, student's work experience, quality of application for jobs and many other factors can affect whether or not students get a job after graduating

lool RLY?

says nothing about salaries, types of jobs, etc.

[funkydee]

(Original post by Chrisateen)
The average graduate salary is £32,652 in 2009/10. However the reason why LSE has such a high average starting salaryis because many of the student there go into investment banking and remember there are more postgraduate students than there are undergraduate so postgrads makes the figures even more higher. It also varies by department as well as for example in my department (social policy) the average starting salary in 2009/10 was £20,416 for undergraduates, and £35,140 for postgraduates (just realised I'm above the average salary in my department ).

graduate salary for IB is 45K....? Cant be solely IB...

Imperial also has a similar salary to LSE.

The reason it tends to be higher than oxbridge is due to the fact some courses such as theology, celtic studies etc are not offered at LSE and ICL