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Msc in Finance ,lse or cambridge

Hi, I'm applying for Msc in Finance at LSE and Mphil in Finance at Cambridge. yesterday checked my status and got the message :''A decision has been made on this choice and is being processed. Processing involves checking by a senior member of staff, and occasionally verification of one or more details by your Department. ...''

seems there is a fairly good chance that I'll get an offer from all the posts I've seen. However, I'm wondering how you guys are going to finance your Mphil. Have you applied for scholarships? I know LSE gives out graduate merit award(GMA) but it's VERY hard to get from what I heard.

Suppose I get offers from both lse and cambridge, I'd probably go for cambridge for the following reasons:
1) fee at cambridge is 7000+3000college fee=10000, LSE's is double that amount.
2) LSE MSc Finance is a baby programme while the one in cambridge has been there for nearly 20 years.
3) higher living costs in london

What do you think? any comment will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance!

Reply 1

roxy potter

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Personally I'd go for the Cambridge course. I would find it very hard to justify spending twice the amount of money for LSE when Cambridge is every bit as good and half the price.Ten thousand pounds is a lot of money.
As well as that, I think the standard of living in Cambridge would be much higher than that in London if you are on a student budget. I was having this discussion with an Imperial professor the other day and he said the same thing, if it came to a choice between london and cambridge one would have a much better standard of living in Cambridge.
If you've done your undergrad in Cambridge though it might be a good idea to go somewhere else as it's not generally seen as a good idea to do your postgraduate in the same place as where you did your undergrad.

Reply 2

bonjour2

LonelyKnight

Hi, I'm applying for Msc in Finance at LSE and Mphil in Finance at Cambridge. yesterday checked my status and got the message :''A decision has been made on this choice and is being processed. Processing involves checking by a senior member of staff, and occasionally verification of one or more details by your Department. ...''

seems there is a fairly good chance that I'll get an offer from all the posts I've seen. However, I'm wondering how you guys are going to finance your Mphil. Have you applied for scholarships? I know LSE gives out graduate merit award(GMA) but it's VERY hard to get from what I heard.

Suppose I get offers from both lse and cambridge, I'd probably go for cambridge for the following reasons:
1) fee at cambridge is 7000+3000college fee=10000, LSE's is double that amount.
2) LSE MSc Finance is a baby programme while the one in cambridge has been there for nearly 20 years.
3) higher living costs in london

What do you think? any comment will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance!

Jian

Hi , you have already heard from Cambridge ? How long did they take to update the status on CAMSIS ? I have also applied to LSE and Cambridge , but I guess that if I am given a chance to study in both schools , I will choose Cambridge over LSE due to the high fees. Where did you take yr first degree btw ?

Reply 3

Lonely Knight

OP

I'm a final year student at Cambridge. I don't think it's hard to get an offer from Cambridge to read mphil in finance but it might be difficult to meet their offer conditions. they normally ask for a 1st and it's a bit hard to get a 1st from cambridge

Reply 4

bonjour2

LonelyKnight

I'm a final year student at Cambridge. I don't think it's hard to get an offer from Cambridge to read mphil in finance but it might be difficult to meet their offer conditions. they normally ask for a 1st and it's a bit hard to get a 1st from cambridge

Woa ! U r a cambridge undergrad. :biggrin:

Yea I am aware of the tough curriculum at Cambridge... in fact I don't pin high hopes on getting an offer from Judge , considering the fact that my first degree is obtained through UOL Ext System , even though I got a 1:1 . Somehow I feel that the curriculum of the UOL ext is overated in terms of quality and compared to yr curriculum , it is nowhere.

Reply 5

Biko

LonelyKnight

Hi, I'm applying for Msc in Finance at LSE and Mphil in Finance at Cambridge. yesterday checked my status and got the message :''A decision has been made on this choice and is being processed. Processing involves checking by a senior member of staff, and occasionally verification of one or more details by your Department. ...''

seems there is a fairly good chance that I'll get an offer from all the posts I've seen. However, I'm wondering how you guys are going to finance your Mphil. Have you applied for scholarships? I know LSE gives out graduate merit award(GMA) but it's VERY hard to get from what I heard.

Suppose I get offers from both lse and cambridge, I'd probably go for cambridge for the following reasons:
1) fee at cambridge is 7000+3000college fee=10000, LSE's is double that amount.
2) LSE MSc Finance is a baby programme while the one in cambridge has been there for nearly 20 years.
3) higher living costs in london

What do you think? any comment will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance!

Hi I'm in a quite similar situation. I got an offer for MSc Finance @ LSE, CASS and WBS. Cambridge is still pending. However, I now decided to go for LSE anyway.
I think you have to consider that the programmes at LSE and cambridge are very different. Therefore, you also should consider which curriculum better suits your needs and interests. Thats the reason why I chose LSE (in my case).

regards biko

Reply 6

Eubacterium

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roxy potter

If you've done your undergrad in Cambridge though it might be a good idea to go somewhere else as it's not generally seen as a good idea to do your postgraduate in the same place as where you did your undergrad.

Why?

Reply 7

Free Radical VII

Just out of interest, what subjects are u doing your undergrads in?

Reply 8

tk23

So whats the exact difference between Msc in Finance at LSE and Mphil in Finance at Cambridge?

Reply 9

roxy potter

13

Eubacterium

Why?

I realise that this seems to have very little to back it up, it's hard to explain. But especially in academic circles(I'm not sure exactly how much in the jobs market) this belief is held. If you do all your study in the one place it's seen as an indicator that this is the only place that you can get on, or that you are unwilling to relocate, or that you're not flexible etc.

Reply 10

Eubacterium

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roxy potter

If you do all your study in the one place it's seen as an indicator that this is the only place that you can get on, or that you are unwilling to relocate, or that you're not flexible etc.

That is actually true to some extent, I didn't realise people took it seriously. Good thing I'm doing my masters in a totally different place to my bachelors. :smile:

Reply 11

v3lve7

Hi All,

Any thoughts looking back at LSE MSc Finance vs. Cambridge MPhil Finance?

I am a prospective candidate for the 2009 intake, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Got a 3.85 GPA in Finance from SUNY Buffalo and a 710 on my GMAT q47v41w6.0.

I am also applying for Oxford's MFE and Warwick MSc Finance.

Reply 12

milkinit

Would anyone here know whether passing the CFA Level 1 exam increases the chances of getting accepted into the Msc Finance programme of any of these two schools?

I passed the exam last December, but I come from a relatively unknown university in the developing world.

Reply 13

Jamid_1985

Hey people...

I have an interview for the Mfin at Cambridge...

Does anyone have any tips? You always hear about off the wall Cambridge interviews, so im not sure what to expect???

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