Graduates' job perspectives

[fungbenjamin]

Hello! I am new to this forum and hope that you would help:

I wanted to find out how employers usually rank an Economics degree from the following universities (i.e. how would they consider offering employment): Cambridge, LSE, Warwick, UCL, Nottingham. Does it really matter to employers that much regarding which university the candidate is from, or is there some other important factors as well? Do you think that bigger companies base their employment decisions more on which university the candidate has graduated from?

Thanks!

p.s. How useful do you think an Economics degree is to candidates when they look for a job?

[fred1222]

Hello! I am new to this forum and hope that you would help:

I wanted to find out how employers usually rank an Economics degree from the following universities (i.e. how would they consider offering employment): Cambridge, LSE, Warwick, UCL, Nottingham. Does it really matter to employers that much regarding which university the candidate is from, or is there some other important factors as well? Do you think that bigger companies base their employment decisions more on which university the candidate has graduated from?

Thanks!

p.s. How useful do you think an Economics degree is to candidates when they look for a job?

It makes a massive amount of difference what University the degree is from. In the first instance oxbridge degrees are more research degrees and the amount of time spent one on one with lectures really adds to the quality of student.

Unless a recruiter is really in tune, anything under the top 10 uni's will not mean a thing regardless of how well the actual department is rated. All the above Uni's you've mentioned are very good but in terms of an economics degree I think most people would go ox/cam then LSE

[fungbenjamin]

It makes a massive amount of difference what University the degree is from. In the first instance oxbridge degrees are more research degrees and the amount of time spent one on one with lectures really adds to the quality of student.

Unless a recruiter is really in tune, anything under the top 10 uni's will not mean a thing regardless of how well the actual department is rated. All the above Uni's you've mentioned are very good but in terms of an economics degree I think most people would go ox/cam then LSE

Thanks, Fred. But do you think ranking matters that much within the top 10 unis? If it does, how would you rank the remaining 3 unis?

[fred1222]

Thanks, Fred. But do you think ranking matters that much within the top 10 unis? If it does, how would you rank the remaining 3 unis?

It's only really Oxford and Cambridge that people rank. I added LSE in because it was an economics degree and they are well known in that area. The rest are known as good Uni's but they are all pretty much the same in terms of a recruiters viewpoint.

[Faith28]

I find that Imperial comes a close 3rd after ox/camb. Then UCL and Kings after that depends after that on the degree and department.