Finance vs Engineering for Investment Banking

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Your degree will have little to no benefit on any of those roles - you can very easily learn what you need to learn independently. It will come down 99% to what kind of experience you've managed to get. Seek as many internships/insight days/spring weeks as possible.

Both degrees are quite good but, if by keeping your options open you mean finance related jobs, I would definitely go with a Economics or Finance degree as it relates to Sales and Trading in a IB, or M&A in a IB, or Management Consulting ect. Would definitely not choose accounting and finance for it. You will probably find you have the best prospects gunning for Economics at LSE. Good luck man!

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Both degrees are quite good but, if by keeping your options open you mean finance related jobs, I would definitely go with a Economics or Finance degree as it relates to Sales and Trading in a IB, or M&A in a IB, or Management Consulting ect. Would definitely not choose accounting and finance for it. You will probably find you have the best prospects gunning for Economics at LSE. Good luck man!

Why not accounting & finance

These are all lower tier unis but Southampton/ Birmingham/ Manchester/ Loughborough for MO/BO roles Which order would you rank them? Some variation of Accounting And finance at all of them. Thanks

Probably Manny/Lboro neck and neck then Birmingham then Southampton.

Thank you how far off is Birmingham from Manchester

Not 100% but I don't think it's that far if we're talking MO/BO roles.

Thanks, manny or Leeds ?

Want to go into Sales and Trading IB, or M&A in a IB, or Management Consulting when graduate. Want to do Engineering as keeps options open, but Finance might be easier to get into these areas.

Any thoughts much appreciated.

If I go down Engineering Route will apply for Engineering at Warwick and UCL as main two.

If I go down Finance Route will apply for Finance at LSE, Statistics, Economics and Finance at UCL, and Accounting and Finance at Warwick.

Which out of these two will keep my options open but also allow me the best option to pursue career in Sales and Trading in a IB, or M&A in a IB, or Management Consulting.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Don't know if you've already made your decision, but I 100% recommend you should take engineering.

You can apply to all finance jobs with engineering, and will have an edge over finance students for S&T. The vast majority of S&T grads these days come from eng/compsci backgrounds, and you won't be disadvantaged for IB... only upside, no downside.

Hi thanks a lot for your reply. I have indeed applied to engineering courses instead of the finance one, for those exact reasons you've pointed out