How is the reputation of LSE in U.S.?

Hey, this is Husheng. I am just wondering whether anyonen here knows the reputation of LSE in U.S?
For example, is it earsier for a Msc Student in Fina and Econ to pursue a Ph.D in top U.S business schools?
Thank you a lot. I am looking forward to your valuable replies!

Reply 1

BigDog04

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Ive heard its very well renowned. All the top schools in the USA know about LSE.

Reply 2

London Loves

The LSE has a huge number of American Bsc, LL.M students. How well renowned it is is debatable. While the academic world has heard of all the top schools - from Oxford to the UEA, how many job providers will have is debatable. Further, remember that a masters in England is only one yar. This may count against you. The final point is - if you want to stay in England - whether english firms will have heard of your american university.

Peace
-Chris

Reply 3

ConsideringUK

I live in Canada, but the level of awareness of foriegn universities here would be about the same as in the states. I would say that LSE would be very well known by anyone in the academic world, and in general people have heard the name and are aware its a very good school.

Reply 4

basbasics

I'm at LSE right now, in the MSc in Management, and with a bunch of people of the LSE we were on a business trip in New York, sponsored by Deloitte, where we were invited at the headquarters of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte obviously and the NYSE. At all places CEO's or CFO's + many people from the different grad programs spoke to us. They all knew LSE, and were all equally impressed; we were given a real treat there. Furthermore, there are many different LSE alumni associations all over the US. We were invited at the NY one, and the people assembled there really belonged to the haute finance of NY. From personal experience, I would say LSE has quite a name overthere (I was offered a job at a HedgeFund more or less on the spot :wink:

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Reply 5

*Hythlodaeus*

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It seems to me that LSE is better known in the US than in certain parts of the UK, particularly where I live.

Reply 6

FTSE100

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basbasics

I'm at LSE right now, in the MSc in Management, and with a bunch of people of the LSE we were on a business trip in New York, sponsored by Deloitte, where we were invited at the headquarters of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte obviously and the NYSE. At all places CEO's or CFO's + many people from the different grad programs spoke to us. They all knew LSE, and were all equally impressed; we were given a real treat there. Furthermore, there are many different LSE alumni associations all over the US. We were invited at the NY one, and the people assembled there really belonged to the haute finance of NY. From personal experience, I would say LSE has quite a name overthere (I was offered a job at a HedgeFund more or less on the spot :wink:

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wow, can i be on that trip from BSc Management course ??

Reply 7

CNN Center

They have trips for undergraduate courses? Wow!

Reply 8

anonymity

the president on the West Wing did his MSc at the LSE.

Reply 9

FTSE100

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martin sheen.. PRESIDENT BARTLETT !!

Reply 10

currency_westlake

lgirue

Hey, this is Husheng. I am just wondering whether anyonen here knows the reputation of LSE in U.S?
For example, is it earsier for a Msc Student in Fina and Econ to pursue a Ph.D in top U.S business schools?
Thank you a lot. I am looking forward to your valuable replies!

Find all your answers here:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56996

Reply 11

tiantang

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56996

Very interesting; great post. Also quite amusing how they seem to be more impressed with MJ and David Bowie than anything else :biggrin:

Bad link. =)

TheWolf

Bad link. =)

Fixed now, it was a quote, original link was from tom.

As for LSE being left/right. I don't believe it is left wing at all, however their certainly is a stigma of it being left wing which I think still exists from some outsiders.

Reply 14

Blackmarket Boy

tiantang

Fixed now, it was a quote, original link was from tom.

As for LSE being left/right. I don't believe it is left wing at all, however their certainly is a stigma of it being left wing which I think still exists from some outsiders.

yeah and its interesting that arguably economists are traditionally thought of as more right-wing yet the London School of Economics (+PSs) has this left-wing rep.

I think it was something to do with some kind of anarchic movement in the 1960s :dontknow:

Reply 15

Bismarck

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Blackmarket Boy

yeah and its interesting that arguably economists are traditionally thought of as more right-wing yet the London School of Economics (+PSs) has this left-wing rep.

I think it was something to do with some kind of anarchic movement in the 1960s :dontknow:

It's because LSE was set up by the Fabian Socialists.

Reply 16

LSE_PostGradQT

did anyone see that glowing human interest article in yesterday's New York Times about World Bank employees/life style. They basically said it was impossible to get a job there unless you had a degree from Harvard, Yale or the LSE...

true true... every other person at the UN/WB seems to a LSE grad

Reply 17

currency_westlake

LSE_PostGradQT

did anyone see that glowing human interest article in yesterday's New York Times about World Bank employees/life style. They basically said it was impossible to get a job there unless you had a degree from Harvard, Yale or the LSE...

true true... every other person at the UN/WB seems to a LSE grad

Can you provide a link, or paste it here if registration is required?

Reply 18

Bismarck

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LSE_PostGradQT

did anyone see that glowing human interest article in yesterday's New York Times about World Bank employees/life style. They basically said it was impossible to get a job there unless you had a degree from Harvard, Yale or the LSE...

true true... every other person at the UN/WB seems to a LSE grad

I worked at the UN, and I can assure you that not only is every other person there not an LSE grad, but a vast majority of them were not educated in Britain.

Reply 19

Londo

Bismarck

I worked at the UN, and I can assure you that not only is every other person there not an LSE grad, but a vast majority of them were not educated in Britain.

That is because they are devious and evil.

How is the reputation of LSE in U.S.?

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