London shares a lot of similarities with New York.
Tier 1 global capitals
Financial and corporate capitals for their continent
Trying to set up a start up scene.
Good public transport
Culture is fairly similar
The real differences are:
more expensive
rains all the time, though milder weather than NYC
service is shit
everything closes by 10PM, except pubs at 12AM, and bars/clubs at 4AM-5AM.
You can get food from anywhere in the world but worse than its original country
International
gateway to the rest of Europe
Most of the world is more familiar with the top American MBA's, If you get Harvard/Standford/Wharton, you should take it.
After that, I think LBS competes well against the rest of the American MBA's, maybe after MIT. While Chicago, Northwestern and Columbia are great schools, they are only really known with business people, the same ones who know LBS anyway so it's pretty even at that point.
As for the LBS itself, like most British schools, it's very international in student cohort and focus. Having a international class of students helps out a lot when you start country hopping since you can get shown around by locals from your program. Also the campus is pretty nice, though a bit smaller than I expected when visited it. It's in North/Central London near Regent's park which is pretty picturesque and pretty easy to get to by Tube.
Tier 1 global capitals
Financial and corporate capitals for their continent
Trying to set up a start up scene.
Good public transport
Culture is fairly similar
The real differences are:
more expensive
rains all the time, though milder weather than NYC
service is shit
everything closes by 10PM, except pubs at 12AM, and bars/clubs at 4AM-5AM.
You can get food from anywhere in the world but worse than its original country
International
gateway to the rest of Europe
Most of the world is more familiar with the top American MBA's, If you get Harvard/Standford/Wharton, you should take it.
After that, I think LBS competes well against the rest of the American MBA's, maybe after MIT. While Chicago, Northwestern and Columbia are great schools, they are only really known with business people, the same ones who know LBS anyway so it's pretty even at that point.
As for the LBS itself, like most British schools, it's very international in student cohort and focus. Having a international class of students helps out a lot when you start country hopping since you can get shown around by locals from your program. Also the campus is pretty nice, though a bit smaller than I expected when visited it. It's in North/Central London near Regent's park which is pretty picturesque and pretty easy to get to by Tube.