Maths with economics at UCL or MORSE at Warwick?

Yeah Warwick = UCL in terms of prestige among employers but for the average person, they would probably think of UCL as being more prestigious than Warwick- a lot of people do care about that lol

Maybe.. Depends how you define 'average'.

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International reputation is also key. You can point to a few morse grads going to US business schools but I imagine there are more UCL grads in general. Though this is just speculation.

Beyond that is living in Coventry (lol) vs London. Depends on your financial situation, I guess.

Indeed.

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I think what's apparent is a reluctance to admit that in terms of 'branding' which is mostly the important thing when selecting a university that UCL is by far the better bet.

If you have any data showing that Warwick has more US business school alumni than UCL, I'm sure you will have already posted it in evidence that you are making a good decision. Do you have a link to that post? Else, I'll presume you found the contrary and are not willing to admit it.

But LSE isn't good for maths and Oxbridge maths is really really hard from what I've heard, so OP can't really choose all of them.

I wouldn't say 'by far'- and OP isn't going to go to business school anyway so why are you guys arguing about this?

Just because LSE isn't the best uni for maths doesn't mean that "LSE isn't good for maths". It consistently places in the top 10 in maths league tables.

Regardless, I would rather study maths at LSE than at Warwick/UCL purely because of LSE's overall reputation.

If I were OP I'd apply to 3 or 4 targets.

You don't know that... He wants to get into trading but who knows what he'll want in 3-6 or even 10 years. My only suggestion is UCL has a better international reputation.

Yeah because doing an MBA issuing to be so relevant to exotic derivatives trading

Yet the maths professors I know at LSE say they would recommend others go to COWI instead..

It is pretty well known LSE doesn't have a great Maths course.

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I think what's apparent is a reluctance to admit that in terms of 'branding' which is mostly the important thing when selecting a university that UCL is by far the better bet.

If you have any data showing that Warwick has more US business school alumni than UCL, I'm sure you will have already posted it in evidence that you are making a good decision. Do you have a link to that post? Else, I'll presume you found the contrary and are not willing to admit it.

But OP specifically wants to work in exotic derivatives trading, which requires a good mathematical degree.

LSE maths is not in the top 10 consistently lol. You cannot deny that UCL and Warwick, along with a lot of the semi targets like Bristol and Nottingham, have better maths departments. The only reason you're saying this is because you applied to LSE

But will it be harder to get into exotics trading if one goes to LSE for maths rather than COWI?

He hasn't even gone to uni yet. You nor he nor I know that he will want to do that in 3 years.

Further, he might want to change career paths. He might want to go check out the US job market. UCL is more flexible.

This isn't difficult. We're dealing with A Level students here. Stop optimising towards one poxy job. It's ridiculous. Career flexibility is much more useful, especially when we start splitting hairs between two fine choices.

Guys I'm NOT going to business school! It's either trading or (if I can't get in) something in the Big4. I have no interest in IBD or strat consulting or any of that stuff.

If I were to do a degree after my bachelors, it would be an MSc in maths or financial mathematics.

Ultimately UCL features regularly in the top 10 universities in the world hence builiding a very impressive international recognition. It features amongst the ivy league universities and is very difficult to get in for the top courses. Warwick on the other hand fares lower than UCL and is only really recognised for its Maths and Econ departments. It might have a large finance society but at the end of the day its speciality is more in the accounting side of things. In the UK it probably matches the number of people going into high finance but internationally UCL is bound to be better.