Hello,being a student in Paris, I would like to know what major investment banks think of City Uni Cass school. I have been accepeted for the masters of Banking and international finance but it would really help me to know if it is worth the price.what about MBF at HEC Lausanne?thank you very much for your help.

Go for it boubou..Cass has a very good reputation, and numerous affiliations with investment banks.You can't go wrong

Cool it dude!I wonder what these "affiliations" are that you talk about. Certainly these are no help in getting a job. Be warned, the job scene at Cass this year has been BAD, to put it mildly.

Does anyone now the job scene at ISMA Centre this year?I read on the BBC that things might be improving for the London Job scenethis year....what do you all think?Good time to go for an MSc? I think its becoming increasingly difficultto decide.

I'd guess this is a good time, provided you think that things will get better.Slowdowns produce a demographic gap, where hiring freezes and slow growth mean that there isn't the right match of experience to jobs.When an upturn comes, the market will tighted.It looks far better to have spent a year on an MSc than unemployed, or irrelevant employment.

Yeah for sure it can't do any harm to do a MSc nowadays specially with the current job market...but what i was wondering is does it offer you a real better advantage compared to others? do IB visit these programs ( particularly at CASS) ? can u easily get a place in the graduate programs of major banks?Plus i would like to have your opinion on the Masters In Banking and Finance at HEC Lausanne. it seems the program is really demanding and of high quality. Plus it has agreements with MBA at Columbia and Stanford so?

I would say that the London Business School and Cass Business School are one of the two longest established business schools in the UK. Nowadays you have Imperial College,Kings College (with Lane Hughston), and Birkbeck College offering Financial Engineeringdegrees. Its not what you learn at business school but what they don't teach you that is vital.One must be a sucker to think that anyone will give you a formula for money generation.Try and talk to final year students at the spot instead of through web pages to gauge the various places relative to your current personal academic/practical development.

BouBouI would recommend MSc at CASS- they are very good in terms of academics (Mike Staunton is teaching there). About their links with the City- your chances of getting a quantitative job will be high, chances of becoming a IB- average.Why don’t you contact their Career Resource Centre and ask how many people are employed/employed by IB?CASS MBA grad.

Boubou,Unsure how much this helps you but this is a response to a similar employment question for MTF at CASS :'MTF statistics show that around 95% of our graduates find jobs in the Financial industry within 3-6 months of graduating.'I will be at CASS next year....feel free to PM.

Of course, if only say 9 former students report they have a job, 1 that he is still searching and the other 20 don't bother to report anything to college you have a 90% employment rate!