Accounting and Finance: Bristol or Bath?

I've recently got all my responses back and received unconditional offers (I'm gap year student) for both Bath A&F (with placement) and Bristol A&F. From an academic standpoint and career prospects, which is the better option?

Bristol from my understanding has greater prestige and is still favoured by old gen recruiters, it's a strong tier 2 RG university and is top 50 globally. However in current local rankings it's not as good as Bath.

Bath's been consistently top 10, even breaking into top 5 in some rankings and it's placement years I hear are partnered with CitiBank which is ideal since I intend to try to break into IB. Bristol has a placement year too but I'm not familiar with any ongoing partnerships and it's conditional on 1st year performance.

I'm aware they're both very close in rankings and neither would be a massive disadvantage but are there any details I've missed or overlooked that may give one uni the edge?

Reply 1

McGinger

Forget rankings and similar nebulous stuff.
At this level of Uni, its even more meaningless than usual.

Placement Year is a big plus. That will add enormously to your graduate CV.
Big city, bigger older Uni - or smaller city, smaller concrete Uni.
If you are into sport at any level, Bath.