1. LSE
2. London School of Economics and Political Science
3. Manchester Uni
4. Durham Uni
5. Oxford Saaid Business School
6. Lancaster Uni
7. Uni of Kent

LSE is in fact london school of economics.

I would say strike off Kent and Durham.

City University is not that great, Cass Business School is great (it's technically under City but there's a difference). For instance, acturial, a&f is under cass, economics is under city.

Why is Warwick, Imperial, UCL and Cambridge missing from the list?

If you gonna spent that much money on a PhD, it better be from a top uni.

Some universities allow you to look for supervisor from other top uni (I can't remember which one from the top of my head).
*i think it's UCL LSE and Imperial for certain subjects

This post has been edited by eddydo: Jun 21 2018, 12:15 AM

You could get an idea of what university to aim for by looking at khazanah's sponsor list of university.

Also, look for rank journals (eg Journal of Accounting Research, Financial Economics, Finance, Quantitative Finance etc) and see which uni has the most research output. You'll get an idea of how good the supervisor from your list of uni is as these are top journals (not sure bout the accounting one as I myself is a finance student (not phd tho :<).

Best of luck