<p>Which uk universities are most well known in north America especially the US and Canada?</p>
<p>The only other British university that would have widespread recognition among the educated is the LSE&PS. Imperial would have some clout among high-level Engineers and in the medical profession and St Andrews may have some level of recognition among tabloid readers thanks to Will and Kate!</p>
<p>Alexandre PS? What uni is that? I’m also struggling to decide between LSE and imperial. I want to work in the States for a big tech company or a big bank but I like imperial more. Will major American employers slur imperial as much as LSE?</p>
<p>Political Science. The University’s complete name is London School of Economics and Political Science. </p>
<p>American employers do not generally recruit students in the UK for the US. They may recruit them for the London or Western European markets, but not for the US. It simply does not make good financial sense to do so. It is too expensive to recruit junior positions from across the sea. Eventually, if you perform well in the London office, you could be in a position to apply for a more senior role within the same firm in the US.</p>
<p>I have a friend who studied at Imperial and then went on to work in Silicon Valley, but he was not recruited in the UK. He actually moved to California and lived with a friend and went knocking at companies’ doors looking for a job. It was risky, but it paid off.</p>
<p>If you want to work for a big tech company, Imperial is the way to go. If you want to work in the City and perhaps one day make a move to Wall Street, LSE makes better sense.</p>
<p>If your aim is to work in the US when you graduate, you would be much better off studying in the US, where most companies do their on-campus recruiting for the US market.</p>
<p>Alexandre thanks for the reply and sorry jedbrien for stealing your thread. Tbh I still haven’t really decided whether I want to work for a tech company or to go for a financial job. That’s why I think I’m going for physics at imperial as in the uk imperial is a target. If I want to work in the us, what do you suggest I do? Do a graduate degree in the US?</p>
<p>St. Andrews & LSE (not in any order)</p>
<p>“and St Andrews may have some level of recognition among tabloid readers thanks to Will and Kate!” – lol … It’s very witty of you, Alexandre!</p>
<p>To the OP: LSE then St Andrews then Imperial then Edinburgh.</p>
<p>@RML sorry but imperial is unheard of in america</p>
<p>RML says lmperial is heard of in north America nano poet says its unheard of, so which is it!?!?</p>
<p>*nanopker Smartphone keyboard for the win</p>
<p>Bump sorry I really wann hear more opinions</p>
<p>I would say after Oxbridge, LSE is by far the best known in the US. After that it’s pretty spotty but I’d say UCL is probably fairly widely known because of its Bloomsbury location and the association with prominent literary figures. SOAS is known among internationalists and development economics types. Imperial is known in some engineering and medical circles, but probably not so much among ordinary employers. St. Andrews is popular with American college kids for some reason, and I don’t think it’s just Will and Kate, but I suspect it’s not particularly well known among U.S. employers. Edinburgh is on the radar screens of a lot of academics due to illustrious alums like Darwin, Maxwell (physics), Hume (philosophy), Lister (medicine), Bayes (math), not to mention a raft of famous authors, but as far as the general public and employers go, it’s probably got pretty low name recognition.</p>
<p>We tend to hold Oxford and Cambridge in very high regard and many of us have heard of LSE, but beyond that Americans by and large don’t pay much attention to British universities.</p>