Comparing UK vs US university

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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>UPenn Wharton</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>NYU Stern</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UCB</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
</ol>

<p>Out of these universities, which do you think
a) Cambridge (Economics) is better than ?
b) LSE (Economics) is better than ?
c) UCL (Economics) is better than ?</p>

<p>for Investment Banking either in UK or US</p>

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<p>its rather simple
For US IB, an American college is better than an English college.
For UK IB, its the reverse.
If the student does not have US working papers, it doesnot matter where they went to college.</p>

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<p>^ It’s not actually like that all the time. Some major US banks hire US grads for offshore positions. Goldman, Citi, UBS, to name a few, hire grads from HYPSM, Berkeley, Duke, or Georgetown for a position in the UK. And, vice versa. The number is quite small though.</p>

<p>Other than that, your post is fairly true.</p>

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<p>T20H825Y: </p>

<p>In the UK, Oxbridge, LSE, Warwick, Imperial and UCL are the top feeder unis for IBanking.</p>

<p>In the US, HYPSM, UPenn, Columbia, Berkeley, Duke, Dartmouth & Georgetown are tops.</p>