[cibo]

(10-17-2013 10:14 PM)paninaro Wrote:  

(10-13-2013 11:56 PM)cibo Wrote:  

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.

Yeah LBS doesn't have much of a campus. It's a couple buildings next to each other, and then the pub next to it is the defacto student watering hole. Note they did just buy the Marylebone Town Hall, which is huge, so that will be up and running in a few years. Their big constraint is the main campus buildings are somehow owned by the Queen/Kingdom, so for that and historical reasons they couldn't really expand them, thus they had to buy a building and expand into that.

Realize LBS is grad students only, so you won't find any cute undergrads running around. I think the nearest university with undergrads is UCL, which is technically a sister school since both are (loosely) part of University of London.

While you won't find that many undergrads at LBS, there are a ton of students in London. UCL, London School of Economics, King's College, are all next to each other and about 15-25 minutes away from LBS. Then there's all those English schools for foreigners all around the town. With about 500k of students in London each year, if you hang around the center, you can hit on students and/or foreign girls all day.