How good is Cass Business School???

well clearly your firm will be cass or soton

it is great for employment prospects because of the links it has for all of its degrees

i would go with cass over southampton if it is the same degree.

the ranking of city has no effect on your degree as it will be under cass business school instead of city so do not worry

i got an offer from cass but rejected because i wanted to do economics

Cass Meh

Okay. Tks for the reply (:

You mean "City" won't be mentioned anywhere in my degree certification? (Are you sure, cos there's got to be a uni in that certificate lol and if that isn't City, there isn't anything else right ������ :P)

What did you apply for at Cass?

Well, Southampton's the highest ranking uni on my choices (unfortunately), so it'll be tough to reject Southampton for a uni ranked in the 40s in the league tables.


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Haha, I got offer for Investment & Financial Risk Management. Considering they're the top Finance school in the City (according to gaurden).. and definitely out of all your offers.. it would be wise to firm it. It's in the city bare in mind so if you want another environment then go elsewhere. It's all down to what you want.. for Job prospects Cass though.

Yup. But how does it rank, when compared to the B Schools of top tier universities like Judge/Säid/Warwick B School/Tanaka (yeah, I know ICL's B School's for post grad only) or simply, a finance/math course at UCL/Bath? I know it's WAY better than the business schools of universities like Reading, QUB etc but what about those universities that I mentioned above (nothing more than a "meh" like the guy above mentioned; and not far lower either)...

It says "City University" is on the actual certificate when you graduate, I think that the person meant that you can say that you're studying at "Cass Business School" instead of "City University", but even that's controversial because I've tried telling people that I applied to Cass Business School last year, and nobody knew who they were, so I had to tell them "it's the business school of City University".

Just to let you know, I had an offer from Cass for AS last year, A*AA. I achieved AABa in my A-Levels, but they still accepted me. I rejected the offer though because I didn't like the university itself (a lot of international students put me off) and I was more interested in becoming an Investment Banker than an Actuary, so I retook my A-Levels.

Lol yes! Exactly! People are like, "Cass? What the hell is that?!", "Oh, so it's a business school, I see"... and these are people we meet everyday, normal people :P It may be great in the eyes of employers but not so much so in the eyes of the common man (I know, heir opinions don't really matter. But even then, I'm sure it'd be nicer to say that you're a Warwick/Säid B School graduate :P)

But for us AS applicants, I believe that's as far as we can go. There aren't any better actuarial science courses (in the UK atleast), I believ. Unfortunately, none of the top tier universities offer actuarial science courses :/

Yup, that's true (too many internationals). I (as an international applicant) am not looking forward to such an environment either. What to speak of you :P


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You can always do Actuarial Science at LSE, so that's the best university to go to by far. If you say you have the top grades, then you should have applied there.

Also, remember that you can become an Actuary by doing Maths/Statistics degrees, even Engineering degrees, basically any degree that is quantitative. Having an Actuarial Science degree just speeds up the process of finishing all the exams though, and as a consequence, you can get a higher salary earlier I'm assuming.

Plus, the fact that Cass has a lot of links to the City, it can provide you links to the top actuarial firms. Also, if you get A*AA, you get a bursary of £3,000 per year, so that's a nice incentive.

Overall though, I care too much about my pride, so that's why I retook the year and now I have an offer from UCL for Natural Sciences

Precisely what I was talking about (:

Any specific reasons for the "meh" or is it just based on what you've heard?


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Two people i know have been, they have an ok external reputation but the students dont always agree.

I hve just graduated with a 2:1 in Investment and Financial Risk Management from City University (and believe me you will be having to say city to 99% of people as cass is about as heard of as Justin Bieber in a small tribe in the Brazilian rainforest).

If you have any questions, feel free to quote me and ask.

Of all your choices cass will be the best for you. If you are foreign which I think you are saying you are I would recommend you to go. If you are British and enjoy a social life which includes a drink here or there (basically if you are not going to Uni 100% for the degree) I would urge you to do everything it takes to avoid cass. It was the most dull 3 years of my life, surrounded by the most ignorant arrogant bunch of ********s I have ever met who all thought they were going to be the next head of Goldman Sachs.

So much hot air and so little substance to 99% of the students.

You should feed this back to the lecturers and establishment of Cass. Given the amount of finance graduates they churn out yearly, it has a pretty poor showing in FO graduate recruitment. My brother is a director in a tier 1 US I-bank, who takes part FO recruitment events. He showed me the booklet of all the short-listed candidates for this year's graduate recruitment in s&t and to my disappointment not a single sausage from Cass. Whether they failed in screening or tests I don't know. For a business school that brands itself as the Uni for bankers, that's clearly ****! Note, I'm not slagging of Cass and to be fair unis outside top 5-6, are in the same boat.