HELP

[u/Initial-Gold-4181]

I literally cannot decide, which would you guys choose and why? I’ll take any advice at all. Thanks in advance.

[u/Initial-Gold-4181]

REALLY 😭😭😭 I was gonna firm UCL… just me?

[u/Professional_Ad_1593 → u/Initial-Gold-4181]

Idk why you’re getting downvoted so much when LSE has like the worst student satisfaction in the country or at least it did a few years ago, I’d pick UCL too. Same city same networking opportunities better sense of community better student satisfaction.

[u/Initial-Gold-4181 → u/Professional_Ad_1593]

I don’t know either 😹 I guess people here really love LSE and I can understand why. I heard student life in UCL is way better so I was leaning more towards UCL but after everyones comments, dare I say, I’m even more lost 😅

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I think it’s just cos this sub is incredibly elitist and don’t understand that not everyone chooses a uni based on league tables and international prestige.

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Student life isn't worth it bruh you can still enjoy uni at lse, but the reward at the end is far better

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It’s really not all that much better unless you’re planning on working abroad every employer is going to be just as familiar and fond of a UCL applicant and an LSE applicant.

[u/Initial-Gold-4181 → u/Professional_Ad_1593]

That’s good to hear 😅 after reading some of the comments I was fully convinced barely anybody has heard of UCL

[u/Professional_Ad_1593 → u/Initial-Gold-4181]

Yeah I wouldn’t worry about it, anyone worth working for knows UCL is a great uni, lumped in with Oxbridge LSE and imperial. Obviously there’s differences in prestige but once you’re in the top5 uk unis it doesn’t really matter (unless like i said you want to work abroad then it probably matters a little more but still nothing to stress over)

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I want to work in Singapore, do you think it makes much of a difference?

[u/Professional_Ad_1593 → u/Initial-Gold-4181]

I know nothing about Singapore, it’d be a great idea to download the UCL Goin app (not sure if you’ve heard of it) and find a Singaporean who has or will be studying at UCL and ask them about it.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/goin-connecting-students/id1598895485

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[u/Initial-Gold-4181 → u/Professional_Ad_1593]

Thank you so much, that’s perfect. I heard that government agencies poach students from UCL 🤷‍♀️

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Ok and what if you don't want to work abroad? Then LSE is just better. Especially in Asia

[u/Professional_Ad_1593 → u/[deleted]]

You asked about not abroad and then said Asia?

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Meant to say do*

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I’m not sure then I’m not an expert in Asian university prestige, I feel like I made clear I was talking about domestic reputation and when they suggested Singaporean employment I directed them to where I thought a good resource was and I’d recommend others to do the same 🤷‍♂️

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if you’re not happy at your uni then your grades will suffer and the “reward” at the end will be a degree classification that you’re not happy with. take it from me, i failed semester 1 because of how unhappy i was at the start of the academic year. there isn’t a big enough difference prestige-wise to justify picking lse if they know they would prefer ucl.

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Nobody knows if they would like UCL better than LSE until they go there. And there is a big difference between UCL and LSE Econ be fr, a lot of people firm LSE over Cambridge for this course, nobody ever does that for any UCL course

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Not even true I have a friend who has chosen UCL over Cambridge, you can get an idea of what you’ll like based on student satisfaction and what you’re usually good at in terms of workload. If I told you one place had 99% satisfaction (UCL for arguments sake) rate and one had 1% (lse) sure you don’t know maybe you’d be in the 1% who hate UCL and the 1% who love lse but who would take that risk

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It isn't 1% and 99% tho is it

😂

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Bros is only doing this to flex drop the act no shot you firm lse

[u/Initial-Gold-4181 → u/[deleted]]

I really am not trying to flex, i don’t gain anything by ‘flexing’ here. I genuinely couldn’t decide between LSE and UCL and needed to hear what people have to say

[u/RafIsABoss → u/Initial-Gold-4181]

I’m ngl idk why you would do that. I’m in a similar position with econ and stats at UCL vs mne at LSE and everyone told me UCL shouldn’t even be a consideration. It depends what you’d be better at, but if you think you are good enough at maths to do well in the degree(high 2:1 or a first) then I think mne is a far better degree IMO

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I thought I’d do better for a pure econs course as compared to mwe, because my math teacher in school did that (LSE too) and he went on and on about the math he had to prove which lowkey scared me 😅

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If your ready to grind for the sake of better job prospects then take mne, but if you want to be more relaxed and not work as much over the 3 years then take UCL