I am a recent graduate working in a small tech consulting firm. I applied to Oxford and Cambridge for postgraduate study before my offers from universities came in.

The offer from Cambridge is for MPhil in Management, and for Oxford, it is MSC Mathematical and Computational Science. Now, I have a month to decide which one to accept. My goal is end to up with at MBB or other top consulting firms. I feel my current firm won’t help with that.

Which offer should I take to maximise my chances?

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I say this without much knowledge of your complete profile and longer term career goals, but the Oxford programme sounds far more interesting. An MPhil in Management sounds great if your end goal is to pursue PhD/DPhil, but the MSc at Oxford could offer you skills that are increasingly sought after in consulting (and you could still pursue a PhD through it if that’s one of your goals). Good luck!

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Is the Cambridge mphil in management an equivalent program to MBA? If so, that’d be a good bet. If not, Oxford would differentiate you and be attractive to MBB imo - they always like people with robust and interesting degrees

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Have you thought of an MBA? That’ll maximise your chances to MBB

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