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COMPARE Warwick Math Finance vs. UCL Comp Finance

kcl_cs_quant

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Hi everyone,
I am graduating from Computer Science at KCL with First class, and I have offers from UCL computational finance and Warwick mathematical finance, my career goal is to be quant trader/researcher/developer in this order, but I am also seriously considering doing PhD in mathematical finance at Imperial/Oxford (they have this random systems research group that focus on ML applications to fin math). Could you please recommend me which offer I should choose to have better chances of becoming quant or getting accepted to PhD programme?
I personally think the Warwick would be a best option bc of their strong math/statistics department which this course is a part of. UCL seems not mathsy enough, and I have already done CS so computational finance doesn't seem too attractive. I see lot more ppl doing PhD at Oxford/Imperial that graduated from Warwick math/stats dept. Also Warwick is often regarded as next to Cambridge at math lvl, and after doing CS BSc the math is what I need rather then more ML and DS. I don't care about london vs. campus as in my opinion it doesn't affect internships at all, I also hate London after doing my BSc here.

TL;DR which course is the best for quant/phd?
 
It sounds like u already made up ur mind given u just stated 5 reasons why u prefer one over the other
 
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Yes, I do have a preferred course, but it's based on my opinion which could be wrong. I would appreciate anyone's input to confirm my thinking or give a useful insight why I might be wrong.
 
Generally I believe this ranking is useless and not accurate in most cases. Ex. Oxford not even in top 25 for 2023. But it was a source for the above, and what I have seen online mostly aligns with that the ucl and warwick salaries are very similar with warwick being just a bit higher.
 
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