The "Is this university/course good enough for banking/consultancy?" thread [part 2]

Which should I be looking to firm for best prospects
Warwick or UCL

Which should I be looking to firm for best prospects
Warwick or UCL

UCL

UCL

It 100% does not make a difference between these two, which has been said at least 68479964 times.

Are you comfortable paying London prices or not? Do you want a campus or a city? That's what should be going through your mind atm.

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Oh but surely one must give you the edge no?

Which should I be looking to firm for best prospects
Warwick or UCL

Can backup gr8wizard10 on the statement. Currently at Warwick aka Campus lifestyle. Coventry is utter dead, Leamington is okayish, however it will get dry and mundane after living there for a couple of months. If money allows, London is the most obvious choice!!! Otherwise stick to Warwick, because if you're low on $$, life in London is going to suck.

P.S I spend my weekends in London, thats how much I want to escape the bubble

for someone who moved out to halls in london, even london was boring. spent every weekend at my parents house. living out is just dead.

hope to not get kicked out and live at home for a few years post-graduation as well.

The banks are hiring traders but very few. It's mostly algo traders and quants that they're hiring from now on.If you like th markets. I would recommend doing something like asset management in fixed income or do FICC strategy but that might also be replaced by algo so you never know. I would stay away from the markets side if I were you, go for IBD as that's a human business.

i see. lol i don't i'm quant enough to do algo trading but i'll look in to asset management. What is ficc strategy? is that similar to quant?

Which should I be looking to firm for best prospects
Warwick or UCL

as someone who's done ficc strat, msot the people on my desk were from a maths/engineering/finance background.. it's essentially a research role for macro securities (swaps/linkers/forwards), we don't sit around coming up with formulas lke quants, but essentially we advised clients on how to trade and what the trading environment (spreads etc..) will look like under our scenarios.

That seems cool, so do you do research on a daily basis or for a whole week, month , year, like the long term or is it short term

for someone who moved out to halls in london, even london was boring. spent every weekend at my parents house. living out is just dead.

hope to not get kicked out and live at home for a few years post-graduation as well.

Hi. I have an offer from Warwick to study History, waiting on an offer from UCL. I've read it doesn't make a shred of a difference between which one I go to, so my question is: Which areas of investment banking can I go into with a History degree?

Anything that isn't highly mathematical which is 95%+ of most jobs in the industry.

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