LSE Business, Mathematics and Statistics

Hey guys,

Just a bit of background info: I've applied for straight economics mostly, but I applied to two different courses at the LSE:

Business, Mathematics and Statistics (have offer)
Maths and Economics (still waiting)

I have an offer for the Business, Mathematics and Statistics course, and I'm just wondering if that is a great degree which should get you in to Investment Banking.

Would the Maths and Economics degree be better or worse in terms of getting into IB and general career prospects wise?

And for my final question - would you consider Warwick's L100 course to be better than both of these anyway?

Thanks, please give your opinions/advice,

Tom

Maths & Econ over BMS.

But,

If you compare the two, most students come to do an M&E degree, but end up graduating with a BMS one.

Ill just give you a heads up now, alot of people switch to BMS (from Maths&Econ or Act Sci) 'cos they've done badly or have failed their first year on the course. I know countless people. Only the brightest stay on to get a 2.1, or 1st.

But switching is not a bad thing tbh. Last year there were ****loads of BMS students who bagged internships.

But saying that, you dont even need a quant degree from LSE to get into IB. Students of all different academic backgrounds get in. The Econ, maths, stats, finance students make up most of the population so invariably they are the ones most represented in the city. LSE is indeed a factory for the Investment Banking industry.

OP just pick the course you like more and will do best in.

I agree, if you don't want to get into the more quantitative side of the industry that is.

a worrying amount of people say this. Just a quick q...If I definetly 100% sure don't want to go into investment banking and want to be surrounded by people with diverse interests and ambitions, would you recommend to go elsewhere than LSE? keeping in mind that LSE is still academically the best uni I'm applying to, so oxbridge isnt on the table..

btw my apologies to the OP, so anyone who wants to answer you can keep it short and keep focus on the OP's topic.

a worrying amount of people say this. Just a quick q...If I definetly 100% sure don't want to go into investment banking and want to be surrounded by people with diverse interests and ambitions, would you recommend to go elsewhere than LSE? keeping in mind that LSE is still academically the best uni I'm applying to, so oxbridge isnt on the table..

btw my apologies to the OP, so anyone who wants to answer you can keep it short and keep focus on the OP's topic.

I'm not sure what the choices are Is it between Warwick Econ and LSE B,M&S? If so then I apologise for stupidity.

dont worry i hadnt made up my mind from just one person. but still there's a lot of other factors - those unis you mention nottingham- i wouldnt fit in and dont particularly like nottingham. durham and warwick are in the middle of nowhere and I could never survive for three years (and you're probably thinking that I'm the one who lives in aldershot, but I only just moved here from London), bristol are absolutely no match for lse for my course, and UCL dont offer it unfortunately.

thanks for the advice but as I said, I have put a lot of thought into it, not just making my mind up from advice on an online forum. I've been to an LSE open day, went to the subject talks, really liked the feel of the place, and loved the location, and have a coupld of friends at lse who i get on with, so it is definetly first choice and i'll just have to put up with a large amount of people wanting to go into IB.

Although I ahve to say I do sometimes wish UCL offered my course...

edit: you may also be wandering why on earth I'm posting this on the IB forum if I claim to have "no interest in IB". lol So am I.

Btw, my friend who just got an offer from LSE said something quite surprising today...he said that for Economics admissions, if you get 10A* you get automatic priority over anyone with less than 10A*, regardless how bad your PS is and how good their's are. So basically if enough people with 10A* or more apply to fill all the places, no-one with less than that can get in...any thoughts on whether thats true? and it had better not be the case for my subject!

Thanks for all the advice so far, I really appreciate it. I don't really have anyone who knows anything about this subject, and although I do make my own decisions, it's always great to have another opinion.

So it seems what most of you are saying is that any of the two degrees at the LSE would be better (albeit, perhaps slightly) than Warwick's L100 course. But I just have a couple of more questions if you wouldn't mine clearing this up......

1. Out of BMS and M+E at the LSE, which is the more mathematical course? I tried looking on the websites, at their syllabii and I couldn't see much difference in terms of math content.

2. Surely the word 'Business' would be a disadvantage when applying for future any jobs/places against those who have studied Economics. I have had it drummed into me that Business is a degree not worth doing, or it's a poor man's economics etc. So would learning about 'Business' in BMS and not real Economics be a disadvantage when going for jobs in IB?

Thanks.