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Re: Profile Evaluation for Masters in Financial Engineering
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07 Sep 2010, 15:31
You seem to be competitive for UIUC as well, based on my personal observation - a sample of two grads from this program, I wouldn't recommend UIUC in this Job market. If you want to add a safety school (or two) with decent placement record, I would recommend Bentley and BU (BU has new MS mathematical finance program) many buy side companies are based in Boston. Additionally, Olin MS Finance Program has strong quant bias as well, so you may want want to take a look at this program. I am not familiar with Columbia program, but I am surprised that they don't require GMAT/GRE, but anything from Columbia is better than a state school or Big ten school for that matter. Top-tier recruiters cluster around schools with cachet, given today's job market I would play safe and stick to Brand name schools with established recruitment connections. Hope this helps and good luck