Hi all,

I've received offer from Warwick and Durham FT MBA. Which one is better in terms of the reputation in UK? My objective is to get a job offer in UK after graduation (2022). Thank you!

Warwick is by far the better MBA. 

Warwick is by far the better MBA. 

These are both among the top 10% of UK universities. Your people are thinking about the undergraduate reputation of Durham. Durham is an older, snobby university, a sort of runners-up Oxbridge, while Warwick and Bath are the outstanding post-WW2 universities that are solidly in that top tier. A useful guide is: https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings/business-and-management-studies 

However, you are not an undergraduate replying on brand equity of the university. You are an MBA candidate, and your placement will reply on the school's connections with mainstream MBA employers (whom most MBA students target) and the career and alumni resources. 96% of Warwick MBAs were placed withing 3 months, in the last FT ranking, compared to 73% of Durham MBAs. Warwick MBA students earn more on the way in (more senior cohort) and more on the way out of their MBAs. They are much more highly recommended by MBA alumni of other schools. Their career services are very much better. In an academic setting, the school is much. more highly respected for its research than Durham. It is much higher ranked for international mobility, and has much better gender balance, than Durham. 

Geography is also a factor: There are 3.7m people within 100km of Durham, compared to 11.6m near Warwick. The train to London from Durham takes three hours, compared to one hour from Coventry (where the Warwick campus is). That makes interviewing in London and the tech corridor from Reading to London much more cumbersome. 

[Edited by Duncan on Mar 21, 2021]

Thank you very much Duncan for the great answer!