Does Oxbridge still have a big impact on graduate career prospects?

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epin · 21/09/2023 19:13

I’ll start off with my line of work. Admittedly very sector and area specific. We take around ten graduates per year for our grad scheme. Over the past few years, somewhere between 50 and 90% were recruited from Oxbridge. Super competitive field, City Law.

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boys3 · 19/02/2024 16:00

Is that a global figure @Oblomov24 ?

PWCs own media centre, 23rd Sep 2023 press release, seem to think for the UK it was just over 70,000 - still a pretty significant number - for 1618 grad and 175 school leaver places. It would be fascinating to see a breakdown of the 1618 successful grads by Uni.

Mia85 · 19/02/2024 16:07

WhatapityWapiti · 19/02/2024 13:06

My City law firm, which takes 3 times as many grads each year than OP’s firm, recruits university blind. HR know where they went but do not use it as a triage criterion. Interviewers are not allowed to ask. When the trainees arrive at their desks their bios do not include details of their universities and it’s not a question that tends to be asked in social conversation any more.

My understanding is that we are not unusual amongst our peer firms.

The graduate recruitment team do attend law fairs at universities, they do go to Cambridge I think but I don’t think they go to Oxford.

It’s a far cry from my day when I was recruited by the Magic Circle out of Cambridge and actually did my entire interview process without leaving town- a bunch of partners came to a Cambridge hotel and interviewed everyone there. Definitely a change for the better.

That's very interesting. Has it made much of a difference to the recruitment from different universities do you know?

Barbadossunset · 19/02/2024 16:09

Whatapity thank you for your detailed answer - that is very interesting.

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