Do you have to go to the top 20 universities to be a investment banker?

link?

lol the university of essex, I dont think anyone from my course (final year econs) managed to secure an intern

That's exactly what I was thinking aswell. Thanks anyway

Lawfirm's offices in London don't do law abroad, they got regional offices for that. IB doesn't work like that. So your comparison doesn't hold.

A lot of the non-white people you will find at those univeristies are non-britsh. Very few foreigners care about doing law in the UK and most probably aren't even allowed to work for the UK civil service. They do however care about doing IB in the UK, as it is not bound by national boarders.
I'm sure if you only looked at people with british citizenship at IBs, the % of non-whites will sink drastically. During my last internship i can recall only 2 british guys who weren't white.

but saying that the best of us managed to get offers from the top 6, due to our department strength...but overall uni rep damages our prospects of landing a top job straight after graduation, although a friend of mine got into Risk at GS last year after graduating from Essex

This is exactly why I thought that Essex economics graduates might have a chance. The Economics/Politics department is one of strongest in the country but I guess the overall reputation diminishes the positives.

That's reassuring however

Also, are you in your final year at Essex?

yeah 3rd year econs, I take it you're at Essex too then?

Unfortunately not yet. Hoping to start in Sept/October, providing I meet the requirements.

How have you found the econs course so far? (since your 1st year)

Sorry if I'm bothering you.

its been alright - teaching is actually great as some of the staff are very helpful, but there are others that are useless lol
If you want to further yourself for after essex, make sure you take the BSc and not the BA and that you take all maths and stats components - and if you want to master in finance, take microeconomic based modules that concentrate on markets and competitions!

Thanks a lot mate. I've also been looking over the website and trying to find out what the course module entails and I absolutely love the way the options are so broad. And yes I will be taking the BSc course instead as I'm planning to do a masters after (hopefully).

Downside is I haven't done maths since GCSE + I dropped the A level after 3 weeks. And now I'm thinking I might completely struggle with the maths/statistics modules. Do you think I can meet up or cope with the maths contents?

tbh, uni maths is completely different to IB and Alevel maths...so they teach you from scratch...but they expect you to have a sound quantitative ability, so you should be cool!!

A friend of mine scored herself an internship at Deloitte last summer getting a 1st at the end of year 1st year at City University. She's now starting there next year on £35,000 .. and City isn't exactly top 20! When I say City, I don't even mean CASS either, haha.

Thread title: "Do you have to go to the top 20 universities to be a investment banker?"

I got into JPMAM from UEA ;x

I got into JPMAM from UEA ;x

You've put your AS expected grades on your Signature. Maybe delete those before you start making things up?