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The Best UK Universities for getting into Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan

For Goldman Sachs (globally):
1. LSE
2. UCL
3. Cambridge
4. Oxford
5. Imperial College
6. Warwick
7. Nottingham
8. Bristol
9. St Andrews
10. Bath
11. Edinburgh

For JP Morgan (globally):
1. LSE
2. Cambridge
3. Imperial College
4. UCL
5. Oxford
6. Warwick
7. St Andrews
8. Nottingham
9. Bristol
10. Edinburgh
11. Bath

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Reply 1

username738914

Original post by C_Richards99

Same old, shmame old. Data is crap though because it's not sampling the grad intakes, it's sampling random CVs in a database.

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LSE at it again

Original post by Trapz99

LSE at it again

Yh, but masters students account for the majority of that

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Reply 4

Killerpenguin15

You could get a job with any tier 1 firm holding a degree from those universities and still be absolutely minted.

Reply 5

C_Richards99

Original post by Princepieman

Same old, shmame old. Data is crap though because it's not sampling the grad intakes, it's sampling random CVs in a database.

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Ah typical Princepieman whining. I thought you'd be delighted that Warwick and Nottingham place on this list! Or are you disappointed that Warwick hasn't placed higher up? :wink:

And to quote from the article:

Of the 26,800 employees of J.P. Morgan on the eFinancialCareers database, more went to Columbia University than anywhere else

Pretty sure their analysis would look at grad intake as that's how they become employees in the first place.

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Reply 6

username738914

Original post by C_Richards99

Ah typical Princepieman whining. I thought you'd be delighted that Warwick and Nottingham place on this list! Or are you disappointed that Warwick hasn't placed higher up? :wink:

And to quote from the article:
Pretty sure their analysis would look at grad intake as that's how they become employees in the first place.

Not really 'delighted', I'm well aware all the uni names on that list are the same old names you'll see in the city. It's not a revelation.

Nah, it doesn't look at grad intake though.

People lateral into finance from all sorts of backgrounds, it's not sufficient to say 'x' number of 'y' uni grads work at 'z' company. To extrapolate that to grad intakes (especially when Ops, Risk etc are thrown into the mix when these roles aren't restrictive to which unis they recruit from) in this way is a sign of laziness, imo. Would have been better to tally up data from 2-3 years of recent grads - restricted to FO.

There are rainmakers at top banks with degrees from god knows where too.

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Reply 7

Terry Tibbs

Not really that substantial given the plethora of contradictory rankings (in terms of semi-targets) out there for things like this.

Reply 8

midgetspinner

Nottingham seems to be performing stronger than expected. What are the reasons for this?

Reply 9

username738914

Original post by glebp

Nottingham seems to be performing stronger than expected. What are the reasons for this?

Not sure, tbh. I do see a lot of Notts to Big4 to IB movement on linkedin + of course the direct hires into grad intakes. Their finance soc is solid, afaia, and they tend to be huge feeders into big4.

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Reply 10

Trapz99

Original post by Princepieman

Are the big4 elitist at all in terms of universities they recruit from? Because most of the people I see in the Big4 on linkedin and at careers fairs tend to come from Russell Group unis and especially Nottingham and Bristol...

Reply 11

username738914

Original post by Trapz99

Nah. When they're hiring 1k+ grads a year each, they can't afford to be that picky - especially for audit.

Tbf, in corporate finance (their IBD arms) and management consulting the make up is the same make up you'd expect at banks (i.e. target/semi-target lot).

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