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Warwick vs King’s vs ESSEC.

Hello all,

I have an offer to study international management at Warwick (A*A Distinction*) and I have an offer at Kings to study Business management (A*ADistinction). I am struggling deciding which on to go to. I want to go into investment banking and have connections in the field already, I know that Warwick is a target school whereas kings is a semi-target, but then I would be nicer to be in central London than middle of nowhere. At the same time I have an interview at ESSEC (Singapore campus) to study BBA which will be amazing, I will be away from home and I don’t have the network there. But Singapore is a city which I love and I would rather be there than the UK.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Reply 1

Catinthehat77

Original post by harrison0192

Hello all,
I have an offer to study international management at Warwick (A*A Distinction*) and I have an offer at Kings to study Business management (A*ADistinction). I am struggling deciding which on to go to. I want to go into investment banking and have connections in the field already, I know that Warwick is a target school whereas kings is a semi-target, but then I would be nicer to be in central London than middle of nowhere. At the same time I have an interview at ESSEC (Singapore campus) to study BBA which will be amazing, I will be away from home and I don’t have the network there. But Singapore is a city which I love and I would rather be there than the UK.
Any help would be much appreciated.

When did you get your offer from KCL. I also applied for international management at Warwick and business management at kcl, got an offer from Warwick but waiting to hear back from kcl. My personal statement was about international management however do u think I still have a chance at kcl with A*A*A

Reply 2

AswathSundaresan

Hey!

I am an ESSEC Student (France Campus) currently in London doing exchange semester at KCL. Similar to you, I am also going down the path of Investment Banking.

ESSEC is a good school, the program itself and its design sets it apart from KCL & Warwick imo. It is a target school for IB in Europe. You will get the chance to study abroad in many universities and there are several different tracks you can choose inside the program (Like UC Berkeley, IBEA which invovles studying in 4 semesters in 4 different countries and so on). As for the Singapore campus, it is way smaller that the one in France (you will have to do one semester in france anyway). But I have mostly heard good things from there (some of my closest friends were from there).

If you are sure that you want to pursue a career in IB, I would strongly recommend KCL or Warwick (both of them are pretty much similar in value, even though KCL is a semi-target) given the additional networking and alumni access you get if you want to work in London. Also the courses are only 3 years and you enter IB much sooner than ESSEC.

So I would suggest ESSEC for a more broad and international uni experience and KCL/Warwick if you want a higher chance of IB right out of undergrad.

Feel free to ask any questions!