LSE MSc Fin&Econ VS. UBC MSc Finance

claudioliang

显然UBC~~！

eraeraera

Hi, enhancer00, you may know who I am

enhancer00

Thank you! It's nice to hear from current students.

Hi, enhancer00, you may know who I am
Here is my 2 cents about the dilemma:

1. If you really want to go for a PhD and survive in the future PhD life , UBC might be a better choice.  Remember you will take all the Finance PhD courses at UBC even you are just a master student. If you want to push yourself further, you can even  take all the micro, macro and metrics at PhD level too. I am afraid LSE will not offer its master students with all the PhD level courses. However, since the courses are tougher at UBC, you need to work harder to maintain a decent GPA for PhD application. If you can survive at UBC, you can survive in most of the PhD programs you get in as well.

2. If you want to work in China after graduation, LSE might be the better choice since LSE has a better brand name than UBC back home. If you want to stay at Canada or UK after graduation, it might be hard to tell which one is better. UK has more opportunity, fiercer competition and more rigorous immigration policy, so there is a trade off thing.

3. I don't know if you care about the difference in tuition of the two programs, but if I were you, I won't.  I noticed you also apply for the new master program at Columbia. Even it seems super expensive, I think it is a better opportunity than both UBC and LSE. If you get it, go for it.

Best luck!

-- by 会员 eraeraera (2011/4/2 8:45:35)

jasonhaha

UBC PhD placement isnt getting better....some guy ended up at Concordia last year...and if you check out UBC's profs profiles, you will notice all the assistant profs are from the top 20 schools(Wharton, Ross, UCB, Stern, Standford,LSE, LBS,Yale etc.) , where UBC doesn't belong. So here is the truth:

PhD programs in Finance are becoming more and more competitive. In order to get a good placement in the future, not only do you need a good school, a good supervisor and your research interests are important as well.

Now that being said, a good masters will give you an edge when it comes to a good PhD program. If you have a chance to do MSc at LSE and try your best to stay at LSE for PhD, i think you should do that w/o a doubt. UBC is a good school, but in terms of finance research and reputation, LSE is much more prominent.

kndx5

第一次听说lse的finance还有reputation,是他们econ的externality？

UBC PhD placement isnt getting better....some guy ended up at Concordia last year...and if you check out UBC's profs profiles, you will notice all the assistant profs are from the top 20 schools(Wharton, Ross, UCB, Stern, Standford,LSE, LBS,Yale etc.) , where UBC doesn't belong. So here is the truth:

PhD programs in Finance are becoming more and more competitive. In order to get a good placement in the future, not only do you need a good school, a good supervisor and your research interests are important as well.

Now that being said, a good masters will give you an edge when it comes to a good PhD program. If you have a chance to do MSc at LSE and try your best to stay at LSE for PhD, i think you should do that w/o a doubt. UBC is a good school, but in terms of finance research and reputation, LSE is much more prominent.

-- by 会员 jasonhaha (2011/4/3 11:41:05)

jasonhaha

第一次听说lse的finance还有reputation,是他们econ的externality？

UBC PhD placement isnt getting better....some guy ended up at Concordia last year...and if you check out UBC's profs profiles, you will notice all the assistant profs are from the top 20 schools(Wharton, Ross, UCB, Stern, Standford,LSE, LBS,Yale etc.) , where UBC doesn't belong. So here is the truth:

PhD programs in Finance are becoming more and more competitive. In order to get a good placement in the future, not only do you need a good school, a good supervisor and your research interests are important as well.

Now that being said, a good masters will give you an edge when it comes to a good PhD program. If you have a chance to do MSc at LSE and try your best to stay at LSE for PhD, i think you should do that w/o a doubt. UBC is a good school, but in terms of finance research and reputation, LSE is much more prominent.

-- by 会员 jasonhaha (2011/4/3 11:41:05)

-- by 会员 kndx5 (2011/4/3 13:03:53)

他们FINANCE去年有个人来了MCGILL，记得前年有个去UBC。。。。UBC和LSE都是好学校，但是金融方面，LSE是非常强大的

enhancer00

他们PhD的placement比UBC好一些，
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/finance/prospectiveStudents/phdFinance/jobmarket2008-09.aspx

另外他们的教授在IDEAS的排名也比UBC高些。

不过UBC的年轻教授实力比较强，所以虽然没有上IDEAS排名，但是top journal paper比较多，所以在publication based的金融系排名高于LSE.

第一次听说lse的finance还有reputation,是他们econ的externality？

UBC PhD placement isnt getting better....some guy ended up at Concordia last year...and if you check out UBC's profs profiles, you will notice all the assistant profs are from the top 20 schools(Wharton, Ross, UCB, Stern, Standford,LSE, LBS,Yale etc.) , where UBC doesn't belong. So here is the truth:

PhD programs in Finance are becoming more and more competitive. In order to get a good placement in the future, not only do you need a good school, a good supervisor and your research interests are important as well.

Now that being said, a good masters will give you an edge when it comes to a good PhD program. If you have a chance to do MSc at LSE and try your best to stay at LSE for PhD, i think you should do that w/o a doubt. UBC is a good school, but in terms of finance research and reputation, LSE is much more prominent.

-- by 会员 jasonhaha (2011/4/3 11:41:05)

-- by 会员 kndx5 (2011/4/3 13:03:53)

ivanzhu

就Publication来讲，LSE在Finance这块算不上一流

enhancer00

你觉得他家的faculty和UBC比，谁的推荐信会更有力一些？

就Publication来讲，LSE在Finance这块算不上一流

-- by 会员 ivanzhu (2011/4/3 14:07:49)