真心求选校：LSE F&E or Duke MA Economics?

ivystage

你说的有道理，我原先一直这么想的，所以觉得LSE F&E更好。但是国内去LSE的人太多了，远多于去DUKE的，导致旁人看来LSE很容易去，含金量低。包括我交流过的国内金融业界的比较资深人士也觉得即使是duke econ，还是much more reputable than LSE。国内的就业环境不太看专业，而是看学校整体的名声。

ivystage

我也觉得duke整体名声更好，但是我看到它的business sector的就业数据，不是很理想啊。


Business Sector Placement
2006-2010

Accenture

Adidas-Finance, Germany

ASA Furniture Co. Ltd

Bakers & Daniels

Bank Indonesia

Bank of Korea

BB&T

Cadwalader, Wickerham & Taft

Central Bank of Colombia

Central Bank of Turkey

Children's Environmental Health Initiative

Constellation Energy

Cornerstone

Deutsche Bank

Dresden, Kleinwort, Wasserstein, New York

Duke Global Health Institute

Duke University Department of Economics

Ernst and Young, Taiwan

Excise Dept., Thai Government

Fabian and Clendenin

Fuqua School of Business

Indecon, Ireland

ING Wholesale Banking, Asia

Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Rose, LLP

Jones Day Law Firm, Washington, DC

Korea Fair Trade Commission

Macquarie

MaxPoint Interactive

Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Japan

Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Korea

Ministry of Manpower, Government of Singapore

Office of Governor of Arizona

Oliver Wyman

Raymond James & Associates

Samsung Electronics

Sanford Institute of Public Policy

Sinochem Corporation

The National Assembly of Korea,

Triangle Census Research Data Center

Turkish Navy

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, The Honorable E. Grady Jolly

United Sates Navy

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Willkie Farr and Gallasher LLP

infu

duke is not that bad... and btw, in terms of finance, fuqua is definitely much much better than lse, if u've ever seen their top publication. the biggest advtange of duke is its flexibility, u could choose courses from fuqua, that is an incomparable advantage. after all, lse has a big class size. but if ur target is domestic job market, lse is better.

-- by 会员 ivanzhu (2011/4/13 20:50:35)

Please stop misleading people ivanzhu.

• Sorry, really don't know the strength of Duke's finance faculty vs LSE's.
  
  
• It's an MA Economics, not MBA, don't throw in Fuqua. Employers care sh*t about whether you can take finance courses at fuqua. MA in economics is still MA in economics. Flexibility? c'mon, in US you have M7 MBAs, Princeton/MIT/Berkley/Stanford Mfin/MFE/Finmath and Ivy league undergraduate standing well above Duke MA In economics for finance recruitment.
  
  
• For pure finance reputation, I'm sure LSE trumps Duke in London and even internationally.
  
• For economics reputation, LSE economics department is one of the worlds best, up there/just below top tier schools in US (MIT/HARVARD/CHICAGO/PRINCETON).
  
• Lier's Poker dude went to LSE for a economics master
  

So if you chose Duke's MA Economics over LSE Finance & Economics is equivalently to choosing Macquarie US (or how it now spells) Backoffice over Goldman Sachs London Front Office.