rca215 wrote:
filmcity wrote:
Others are not worth attending if you are aspiring for a top of the line job.
Cambridge and Oxford are also fine schools with strong international reputations. There are a few other schools, that I'm not too familiar with, that have strong domestic UK reputations as well.
I do not know much about Ox, but regarding Cam I am not sure whether they place you for the top jobs. Sure, there are some rotational programs which recruit from Cambridge, but they are very very few and recruit right at the beginning of the course.
For this year, there has been no IB placements. IBs visit during Oct-Nov, and they did not recruit anyone. Strange, that credit squeeze at that time affected only US market but the placements at Cam affected more than those at the top US schools. BCG invited some candidates for their Asia placement but did not recruit any. To know more about the activism put out at by the career service to increase the brand awareness please read this:
https://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/15/ ... spot16.phpI quote the relevant part:
"Business students measure success by the jobs and salaries they can command. Cathy Butler, the school's director of MBA career service, said Judge graduates were seeing "increasing success," as measured by job offers and signing bonuses. Boston Consulting Group, however, said that it had hired just 13 Judge MBAs in the last decade; the firm's London office alone typically takes 10 to 15 business graduates a year. "We would want to hear a pitch from them that would show us they are attracting top students," said Richard Murray-Bruce, in charge of MBA recruiting in London."Cambridge used to have that Cambridge-Oxford job fair which is no more, although Oxford is holding its own job fair. Where in Oxford 38% jobs are through campus placement, but in Cambridge there is hardly any campus placement.
This year, the MBA class will be finishing by mid-june and till now only around 20% got jobs.(
https://mycambridgemba.blogspot.com/2008 ... s-day.html)
If you want to probe further, just ask career service how many students were recruited by M/B/B or any other top company targeted by you ( I did). They will hardly come up with any number. For instance, check their placement report. No number apart from salary figure!
Moreover, Cambridge last year increased its class size from 100 to 150, whereas career service did not increase its staff neither the available jobs have increased.
To add further worry, this year they are starting the Master in Finance programme, whereas till now there has not been any IB placement from MBA.
Now it is upto the reader to figure out!