Accept Lloyds Banking Group or Imperial College?

If you want IB/high finance go for Imperial, if you are fine with corporate banking do nothing, relax your entire career and make £50k/year max

I start my commercial banking graduate scheme at Lloyds Banking Group this September, but I heard back from Imperial College Business School who have also made me an offer for an MSc.

I'm really stuck in the middle, because I like the job security and can't wait to finish education and get started (plus escape the whole graduation job applying scene). On the other hand, I would love to get Imperial on my CV and can't help but think I could potentially get into IB or similar.

Thoughts?

If you want IB/high finance go for Imperial, if you are fine with corporate banking do nothing, relax your entire career and make £50k/year max

Could you not ask to defer your Lloyds offer?

I start my commercial banking graduate scheme at Lloyds Banking Group this September, but I heard back from Imperial College Business School who have also made me an offer for an MSc.

I'm really stuck in the middle, because I like the job security and can't wait to finish education and get started (plus escape the whole graduation job applying scene). On the other hand, I would love to get Imperial on my CV and can't help but think I could potentially get into IB or similar.

Thoughts?

Yeah I definitely could, which would be a nice safety net regardless but would make the MSc kind of pointless in a way - I just feel that Imperial + their career services would definitely allow me to springboard higher

@jenbrown1234 @terry tibbs thanks for the advice, I appreciate the opinions

Interesting thread as I've heard it's a poor choice to take a pricey £40k+ masters over a somewhat decent grad scheme

I'm in a similar situation with a big 4 audit offer and tempted to go for an expensive masters, but it feels like a waste. Thoughts?

I go to imperial and I went with the intention to get into IB. It didnt work. There's so much competition and tere's a lot of bias in the recruitment processes.Typically people have links and tthat sort of stuff through which they can in. I would drop the idea of doing the masters and stick with the grad role. I dont think Imperial's name or the extra academic knowledge will do anything compared to the experience you would gain on the job. The rest is up to you!