If you could not go to the US schools for your PhD education for some family/personal reasons, where would you go.
No trolls, please
Rank PhD programs in Finance outside the US
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LBS
LSE
HEC
Toronto
SSE
Bocconi/Tilburg (going down)
CopenhagenIn terms of historical placements, tilburg is 3rd/4th in Europe
Another reason to come to Tilburg as a PhD student is that it is an employment, and you will be paid as much as a Lecturer with a PhD in Turdlandistan.
You contribute to pension in Netherlandistan. This might no seem like much to a young person, but 4-6 years of generous pension contributions, while you are getting paid net as much as in Turdlandistan is a big deal once you get older and you start to collect years of service for retirement.
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LBS
LSE
HEC
Toronto
SSE
Bocconi/Tilburg (going down)
CopenhagenIn terms of historical placements, tilburg is 3rd/4th in Europe
By pushing lemons of a right gender into some top schools? This trick is not working well anymore, and many productive faculty left. I was considering to place Tilburg higher, but current reality prevents me from doing so.
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5 years ago I would recommend LBS. Now definitely LSE for their strong faculty and Econ group.
LBS's best advisor Vikrant Vig and Ralph Koijen have gone, so you won't expect yourself to have as stellar a placement as historical records in 5-6 years later.
And LBS you won't have a chance to study more Econ topic like IO and Macro.
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I was thinking about how to answer this question and it donned upon me that sparsity of good non-US programs is a smoking gun for how unscientific this field is… in fields that seek objective truth, they realize the truth can be found at places other than the top handful of US programs.
Anyways, back to the question… LBS, then LSE, then SFI, then toilet