Uni rankings 2020/2021

For business, I tend to disagree the least with the FT and QS subject rankings for business schools/management.

But to make a long story short, the best business schools in the UK are LBS, Said, Judge, LSE, UCL, Imperial and Warwick (in no particular order). After this, there are strong business schools like Cass, Manchester, Hult, ESCP Europe's London campus and a few others, but they aren't as prestigious as the ones mentioned earlier.

All rankings are subjective and not totally reliable. The international rankings favour older big city universities and for that reason I find them very unreliable. The guardian tends to fluctuate hugely year on year. The complete university guide and the Times guide tends to be the most reliable but again should be used with caution as there can only be small differences between quite large groups of universities. For example a university in say 6th place is basically of very similar standard to the one in 16th.

What would be your top 5 business schools in the U.K. ?

What would be your top 5 business schools in the U.K. ?

But the courses on the top ones are so numbers based and lack variety. What’s LBS? Why is Warwick higher than Manchester ? Seems odd...

If you want to pursue a degree that's less numerate and has more variety, you'll have to shop around and see what peaks your academic interest.

LBS = London Business School, widely considered the UK's most elite B-School.

Why any university with similar entry requirements is perceived as better than another is unknown to me, but I'm telling you the consensus amongst IB firms and elite strategy consultancies, which generally care the most where you went to uni.

Trust me, the top 7 schools aren't ambigious to people who you should care about impressing. They're the ones I mentioned before.

But, if you aren't interested in the most elite firms, you have plenty of other good universities to consider like St Andrews, Bath, Cass, Manchester, etc.

It'd be wrong to call them elite, but they're very good.

If you want to pursue a degree that's less numerate and has more variety, you'll have to shop around and see what peaks your academic interest.

LBS = London Business School, widely considered the UK's most elite B-School.

Why any university with similar entry requirements is perceived as better than another is unknown to me, but I'm telling you the consensus amongst IB firms and elite strategy consultancies, which generally care the most where you went to uni.

Trust me, the top 7 schools aren't ambigious to people who you should care about impressing. They're the ones I mentioned before.

But, if you aren't interested in the most elite firms, you have plenty of other good universities to consider like St Andrews, Bath, Cass, Manchester, etc.

It'd be wrong to call them elite, but they're very good.

What do you mean about the top 7 unis being ambiguous? That didn’t make sense to me.

I'm saying there's an overwhelming consensus in the aforementioned industries that the top (prestigious/elite) business schools include LBS, Said, Judge, LSE, UCL, Imperial and Warwick in the UK.

If you ask for people's opinions on TSR or look at irresponsible league tables to understand the top 5 business schools from the perspective of their reputations at the most selective firms, and they aren't naming one of these 7, they're going against overwhelming consensus.

I'm not saying they have the best modules, student satisfaction and teaching quality, nor every firm's top choices for recruitment. But I am saying that they're very well known to be the most prestigious, which seemed to be what you cared most about in your original post.

Yes you are right. I am going after a masters because I don’t think my management degree from royal holloway will cut it. Especially because of fierce competition:

Cut it with who?
Have you spoken to any employers about your plans? A masters straight after a BA/BSc isn’t generally a good idea for management unless you want to specialise in a specific topic.

Get some experience

But the courses on the top ones are so numbers based and lack variety. What’s LBS? Why is Warwick higher than Manchester ? Seems odd...

London Business School, probably the most prestigious business school in the UK, as for the others including Warwick they're all highly targeted schools and Warwick does continuously rank in the top 3 in economics and business.

According to which site ? Thanks

the economist, business weekly, financial times, forbes.
times higher education also has LBS as producing the most top CEO's along with Harvard, Penn, Oxford
Additionally, you can look at the alumni such as Jim Ratcliffe and many others from LBS. The prices for the degree also reflect the salary you're likely to make after with LBS being the most expensive postgraduate university in the UK with an MBA costing £90k and degrees like finance and management around £33k-45k

This is insane! Wow. I recently started looking into master, and honestly it was the first time I heard about LBS. Looking into the entry requirements, I couldn't see them on their page. Could you let me know if they are maybe firsts or 2:1? Maybe the 90k means they are open to applications because maybe not a lot of people apply ?