What is your opinion on SBS (Stockholm Business School), and is it hard to get accepted in a postgraduate program?
This is, I discover, the new name for the Stockholm University School of Business. This is an excellent, state-funded, centre of management scholarship which lacks the business connections of the Stockholm School of Economics, which was founded by the business community. University and business school ranking in Sweden If you need the criteria, you stand a good chance of getting accepted.
Should I choose Surrey over Durham for economics?
Hey!Since I am electronics engineer, I can’t tell you much about your specific course. Though I can share my experience of being an international undergraduate student at Surrey. Let me first start with the campus, as thats where you will be spending nights and days…its simply beautiful and buzzing. It has like Starbucks, various coffee machine in/near the lecture halls. It has a surrey shop (they tend to change its name quiet often) where you can find everything you need be grocery or medicine! For books you have bookstore, ‘AppleSeed’ where you can find most of your books, stationery etc.To get you settle and make you comfortable they have a freshers week, you will meet students from different background, know your department etc and the studies start after that week, its basically a week to make you comfortable. Moreover they have student mentor program, you can know more about them on your website.Many students like to work part-time as well as study, the campus is on walking distance from the town centre there you can easily find the job or you can even work part-time on the campus or become student ambassador! I am ex-student ambassador myself :)So, if asked for me..I am really happy that I chose Surrey.Hope my answer helps you.
What are the best colleges in Europe to do Masters in Economics or an MBA?
For Economics, I would suggest the following (the list is not ranked) -Paris School of Economics (PSE)Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneTilburg UniversityStockholm School of EconomicsErasmus University RotterdamUniversity of BonnETH ZurichUniversity of Mannheimand the usuals - LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick and UCL
Should I choose Bocconi or Stockholm School of Economics for MSc Economics?
While those are certainly excellent business schools, their economics departments aren't really on the same level, and their presence in academia isn't on par with LSE, UCL or Warwick, if we're comparing with UK unis. If you really want to go abroad, between those I would choose SSE because it's cheaper and more collegiate. Stockholm is also an exciting cosmopolitan city.
Would you choose UCL or Bocconi?
Note: obliviously, I’m biased being a Bocconi Alumnus. That said, I don’t completely agree with Alejandro answer with respect to the rankings. In fact, just looking to QS, Bocconi is always above[1] [2] UCL for Management and Finance and only a position lower for Econ[3]. You can find a better description here: Bocconi and Rankings - Bocconi University.Nevertheless, it’s true: London is totally on another level if compared to Milan. Even though the latter is a cool city, London is one of the best and most amazing cities on the planet.At the same time, the maximum (what you pay depends on your income brackets) fees in Bocconi (at least until one year ago) where at €10k while at UCL are £9k (assuming you are an EU citizen) to which you have to add the living cost, which in London are astonishingly high at the moment.Finally, there is a last aspect which I would honestly consider if I were in your position: the Brexit vote. If those (idiots) leave, you not only will have to pay the oversea fees (a whopping £17k), but you will also find yourself in a country loosing any importance on the international scene.But honestly, they both are super-good institutions.Footnotes[1] QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Accounting & Finance[2] QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Business & Management Studies[3] QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Economics & Econometrics
What are the best colleges in European countries?
Well, I have never really commented on a post before today, so I’ll do my best to answer. Your question is quite vague as I don’t really know if you are looking at a particular subject or just rankings in general. So, I’ll go with the latter.I attended the University of Manchester in the UK, and I can confidently say that the best colleges in Europe are located in this country. Indeed, if you compare the two “main” league tables which are QS and THE, you’ll see an abundance of UK universities. I’ll give an example.If you open up QS, the best universities in Europe are : Cambridge (5th in world, 1st in Europe), Oxford (6th and 2nd), UCL (7th and 3rd) Imperial College London(8th and Fourth) followed by King’s and Edinburgh. You already have 7 UK universities in the top 10.The Top 5 for THE is more or less the same. Further down in the top 50 you have more prestigious universities such as University of Manchester, Warwick, and so on and so forth.However, Switzerland also is a good place to study where there are prestigious universities, such as ETH Zurich and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.Obviously there are also prestigious universities in other countries, such as France which has institutions on the rise in the rankings. A few examples can be Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, ENS, Sorbonne, École Polythecnique, etc.Hope I helped you
Where can I study finance investing economics and everything that has to do with money or where can I find experts that can train me on this fields?
What is your goal? If you want a high-paying finance job, you need a degree. Playing with other people's money is the easiest way to make money in finance.If you want to learn trading, finance and economics will not help you. This is a hard path that looks too easy. The market is an n-th degree Keynesian Beauty Contest. You will have to spend time (probably years) reading books, making trades, and constant self-improvement to untangle the games played by Mr. Market. Even then, success is far from guaranteed.One trick I have learned: you have to learn from many questionable, or even unreliable, sources and piece them together. There is no such thing as absolute, durable knowledge in the market. Everything you think you know are true only some of the times. What has been reliable true for 10 years can be suddenly useless. Get used to it. A flexible belief system can help.It is helpful to have mentors. There are paid mentors and free mentors. The former is not automatically better than the latter. You can go to your local investment/trading Meetup groups and find someone you like. Again, you will encounter many false mentors, and even a few good ones who get lost in their ways. This is okay. Compose yourself and move on.
Are there any good opportunity for Masters abroad after studying at ISBF?
A number of students I’ve taught at ISBF have gone on to wonderful higher study pursuits that I’m immensely proud of. One student received an offer to transfer to LSE BSc Economics in 2nd year but chose to stay back at ISBF since his dream was the MSc Economics at LSE anyway. And after finishing his undergraduate degree, sure enough, he was accepted into that programme and is studying there now. Another is studying at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, yet another researched at IIM Ahmedabad after the Graduate Diploma in Economics and then went on to Paris School of Economics for further study. One is studying at Delhi School of Economics, one at Warwick Business School, a couple are doing integrated research programmes in Europe (Germany and Hungary if I’m not wrong), and the list really does go on. Oh, and I’ve missed a student at Oxford (though this guy didn’t seem to listen much in class!), another at University of British Columbia, and several others who’ve gone overseas for top-notch Master’s programmes. Here’s the thing - (a) LSE is one of the top names in the world academically, so if you’re doing a degree where the curriculum and the marks are theirs, higher education institutions across the world value that, and (b) colleges in the UK / US have much less of an “equivalence” issue with marks awarded by LSE than they have with, say, a Delhi University or Kolkata University. That is to say, your scores from ISBF’s programmes are much more trustworthy for, and considered reflective of your true ability by, top colleges overseas, than any qualification and grades from any Indian university. Hope that helps put things in some perspective.
What are target universities for top investment banks (in the UK)?
Here are the targets and semi-targets that I know from speaking with British bankers. This is not a definitive list and the schools in each category are in no particular order. In recession times, only the best of the best from targets will even get an interview.England UniversitiesTargets: Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Imperial, UCL, LSE Semi-Targets: Bristol, Durham, Manchester, Kings, York, NottinghamRespectable: Bath, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, LeicesterOther British Isles UniversitiesTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland)University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland)University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)