Advice needed! (MSF finance)
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23 Dec 2012, 17:51
Was hoping someone could offer me some advice.
I'd like to enter a Masters in Finance program; whenever I search for programs, the craze seems to be all about getting into the most elite programs and the same 10 names appear over and over again. Yet, there are scores of Finance programs out there in the US and it's hard to find much useful information about all those programs that aren't among that small elite group.
I did undergrad in Chicago and would like to stay in that city for graduate school. So, I'm looking at several schools.
Loyola (MSF)
IIT (MSF)
DePaul (MSF)
University IL Chicago (MBA corporate finance)
1. Anyone have any opinions on these schools?
2. What would my job prospects be for schools like these?
3. What criterion are there to judge the quality of such programs? I mean, if the program is affiliated with the B-school, you can look for AACSB accreditation. There's also CFA partnership. I wish there was an exhaustive list ranking these programs or at least breaking them into tiers. If I try to search for rankings of graduate finance programs, I always get the same list of 10-15 schools. It's frustrating. I feel that if I'm going to invest $50k+, I should at least be able to say how relatively prestigious / job prospects would be between, say, Loyola MSF and DePaul MSF. They might as well be equivalent to me right now. What other criteria should one consider for a school? edit: Like for an MBA, obv you shouldn't even consider a school if no AACSB accreditation I'm assuming. What other criteria exist for graduate finance programs?