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by krapht 2583 days ago
Surely Oxbridge or LSE mean something on a consultant's resume.
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Rubber stamps matter in consulting. Less so in banking, and negligibly so in trading.
I think I've heard of Oxbridge, don't know what it is, what is lse? I'm in the us though, not in banking.
> what is lse?

London School of Economics [1]. Prestigious British school, largely only relevant, outside the U.K., to economists and financiers.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/

> what is lse?

The school that Mick Jagger went to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. In the UK it's a term often used to refer to the universities - which are routinely ranked as the top two universities globally.