jbrowne

Hi Greg Can you drop me a PM with your application ID? You should have received a decision ages ago as the programme is nearly closed now. james

Hi Niti Unfortuntately I can't really say on US colleges but your UK list looks about right - possibly with the addition of Oxford. If you wanted to consider other UK School then possibly Essex, Nottingham or Bristol may be of interest. I can't really give any indication as to how difficult it is to gain entry to their programmes. As to your grades, your BA score is competitive however the selectors with pay particular attention to the School you studied at. For the MSc Economics and Management programme I'm afraid that your GRE quant score is possibly too low. Unfortunately this may diminish your changes as generally the selectors will be looking a GRE quant score slightly higher than this. They are usually not too concerned with a relatively low verbal score. The GRE score is but one factor and they will look at your complete application so it is not possible to give you a definite indication. Hope you understand. James

Hi Niti To be honest it is really difficult to give an indication as to whether you have the background suitable for either an MSc or PhD programme without more information. As you want to work professionally rather than enter academia I would advise you to consider an MSc programme. You probably don't want to wait for 4 years or more to gain a PhD and so you may find it hard to maintain the discipline required and there is also the opportunity cost from taking a 4/5 year programme. In addition, to gain entry to a good PhD programme you would probably need to do an MSc programme anyway and many selectors will not regard a BA and MBA as good preperation for a PhD programme. Hope this helps James

Hi Enrico I've replied privately with my details. James

Tsenkup - I've private messaged you my details.

No probelm - I agree but I don't this is the best place to post this though. I don't think the URCH forums should be about schools marketing their wares - it's more about students finding out what programmes are really like behind the marketing messages and stats. If anyone is interested in the programme then the should drop me a line

Apologies for resurrecting a long dead thread but I work at LSE (marcoms in the Dept of Management). I found this thread in Google when searching for Management & Economics and I thought I really should clarify on some of the points raised in case any potential applicant stumbles upon it. The MSc Management and Economics programme does not cover any macroeconomics so as noted it may not be the best preparation for many Economics PhD programmes however for any PhD in the areas of Managerial Economics, Business Economics or Strategy it is very good preparation (indeed 3 of last years class of 20 are now studying towards a PhD). It is certainly as difficult to secure a place on the programme as it is to secure on on the standard MSc Economics - last year there were almost 15 applications per place. And of course I would strongly disagree with the comment about the faculty on the MSc Economics being better but then again I do work in the Department of Management so I am bound to say this! The programme is run in partnership with the Economics Dept and is the baby of Professor John Sutton (one of world's experts on industrial organisation and previously the head of the Economics Dept) and Professor Luis Garicano (previously one of Chicago GSB's top economics professors).