<p>LSE definitely is very career oriented, as all the top banks are on campus regularly, and there are dozens of invitation-only networking events at banks’ headquarters, for LSE students specifically. There is also an excellent careers service on campus.</p>
<p>I’ve yet to see whether the people studying the MSc in Finance and Economics derive any significant advantage in the job market just because they studied finance; at every single bank event for LSE students at bank HQs (including GS, MS, ML, LB, UBS, DB and many others) the recruiters stress the fact that what you study doesn’t really matter, as long as you are very smart (as evidenced by the university you attend, and in some cases logical reasoning tests) and very good with numbers (as evidenced by your scores on numerical reasoning tests).</p>
<p>I have met a guy with an MSc in Mathematical Finance from LSE who wound up in operations, and I’ve met a guy with only an undergraduate degree in history who was recruited into trading. It seems neither studying finance nor attending LSE, nor being very smart guarantees you anything in the job market these days.</p>