Master's in finance (London Uni)

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Looking for feedback over Masters in Finance from Bayes/City of London, Imperial, Kings and UCL, especially if first hand experience.
This would be straight after a Bsc Economics from Uni of Manchester. Thank you !

Watching with interest as my Dc is in 2nd year economics and finding it really hard to find an internship for the 3rd year so is wondering if doing a masters in London would be an alternative route into the job market.

thank you,

I hope we get some feedback from YP/families who have been having the same issue or are in the same predicament. there really isn't that much in the UK at the moment.
from discussions a lot of people have said it's a waste of time and money etc but these are people who had to make that decision a while back when the job market was different for graduates

Sorry, don’t know anything about the Masters in Finance but do has a friend at Imperial doing the new ‘ish’ finance, economics and data science degree and employers are falling over themselves to offer internships apparently and promises of well paid grad jobs.

Perhaps look in the Student Room forum.

A friend's son did a Masters in Economics at LSE and then managed to get an internship at a bank. He hadn't had success before that.

It's very competitive.
DS, 21, did a BSC in Economics at UCL. Got offered two paid internships in Year 3 with global consultants after applying to over a 100 and being in deep despair. It was a slog.

Currently doing an Mphil at Cambridge also in economics, and was offered a £50 k per year job by one of the consultants in September, provided he passes his masters. The masters is tough! He is working all day and night.

That said some of his UCL and LSE friends have got jobs without masters. Some are even international students who will eventually need to be sponsored.
I think a math heavy Masters from UCL, LSE or Imperial would be worth it. Kings and Bayes: maybe not so much.

@PinterandPirandello ’s suggestion of joining the online forum The Student Room is excellent. Assuming this post concerns your YP, by doing so they can ask current and perhaps former students of these programmes what jobs their cohorts get, typical time frames, whether participants recommend the programmes, etc. Quality of the forum is generally high.