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The most important thing here is WHAT you want to study.

I would say Cranfield, if money is a problem. That said, I'm struggling to think of a course, other than finance/management related ones, that all three of the universities have in common.
Reply 2
say Economics
And would your choices differ if you got a BSc from Imperial?
Reply 3
My answer would be... LSE or employment. Don't bother going to Cranfield. Work for a few years, then pay for the LSE. Work experience and worthwhile postgrad. Win win.

[I haven't even heard of Cranfield? Where is it?]
Reply 4
I never heard of it as well until I started looking up for postgraduate funding and I saw the Cranfield name on a website. Seems like they award full financial support for international students.
Reply 5
cranfield is a small specialist place with explicit links to the military. people in certain circles know it and respect it.

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/

every so often I come across institutes that i didn't know existed. about a year ago a came across heythrop - a uni of lond. college.
Cranfield is a postgraduate only research university that specialises in applied fields such as engineering, health, defence, finance. It is one of the most research intensive universities in the UK (kind of unsurprising) and is well respected in the fields it operates in. Most undergraduates haven't heard of it because it isn't on their radar and many people in HE haven't heard of it because of its specialities. The employment stats from cranfield are pretty impressive and I wouldn't dismiss it completely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranfield_University#History
Reply 7
edders
My answer would be... LSE or employment. Don't bother going to Cranfield. Work for a few years, then pay for the LSE. Work experience and worthwhile postgrad. Win win.

[I haven't even heard of Cranfield? Where is it?]


If you haven't heard of it then don't suggest not to bother going there.

Cranfield is one of the best places in the world for economics. In fact, for 2 years now, Cranfield is the 2nd best school for economics worldwide, right after University of Chicago Booth and even before MIT Sloan School of Management.

If you're interested in economics look at some rankings by suject, e.g. from FT.
Reply 8
Cranfield's ranking in FT business school is round 11th place in Europe every year....