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03 Mar 2011, 22:34
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Hi everyone,
I completed my undergraduate in honors finance in 2007 and have worked for 3.5 years since then. 1.5 years in investment banking, and 2 years in private equity. All of this has been focused on Latin America with 2.5 years living and working in 2 Latin American countries. It has been very fun and interesting but ever since I graduated, I have wanted to go back to school to get a PhD. I spent my senior year working on a "masters quality" senior honors thesis and really loved the research process. I have missed that rigor during the past 3.5 years of work. One good thing is that I have developed many ideas for areas of research based on my experience in Latin American finace.
My biggest weakness is that I lack an adequate math background- the last time I took calculus was AP Calculus in high school and my only math classes in college were Business Stats I and II and my finance courses.
I would like to apply next January to about 10 PhD finance programs ranked 15-35 so I am trying to decide the following:
1) which math classes would be most important to take (calculus I and II, linear algebra, multivariate calc, probability, econometrics, intermediate microecon?),
2) whether to take the classes online while I am working or quit working and go back to school to study math for a few semesters
3) where to take the classes (distance ed: BYU, University of Utah, Illinois Mathnet netmath.uiuc.edu, Shorter University www.distancecalculus.com or physically at my undergrad school University of Utah?)
Any advice you could offer would be great! Thanks in advance!
I completed my undergraduate in honors finance in 2007 and have worked for 3.5 years since then. 1.5 years in investment banking, and 2 years in private equity. All of this has been focused on Latin America with 2.5 years living and working in 2 Latin American countries. It has been very fun and interesting but ever since I graduated, I have wanted to go back to school to get a PhD. I spent my senior year working on a "masters quality" senior honors thesis and really loved the research process. I have missed that rigor during the past 3.5 years of work. One good thing is that I have developed many ideas for areas of research based on my experience in Latin American finace.
My biggest weakness is that I lack an adequate math background- the last time I took calculus was AP Calculus in high school and my only math classes in college were Business Stats I and II and my finance courses.
I would like to apply next January to about 10 PhD finance programs ranked 15-35 so I am trying to decide the following:
1) which math classes would be most important to take (calculus I and II, linear algebra, multivariate calc, probability, econometrics, intermediate microecon?),
2) whether to take the classes online while I am working or quit working and go back to school to study math for a few semesters
3) where to take the classes (distance ed: BYU, University of Utah, Illinois Mathnet netmath.uiuc.edu, Shorter University www.distancecalculus.com or physically at my undergrad school University of Utah?)
Any advice you could offer would be great! Thanks in advance!
06 Mar 2011, 12:46
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chilango
Those are all low level math courses (the first 4 can be taken at any community college). If you seriously want to know the level of math required it would be something like:
Intro Real Analysis -> Graduate Real Analysis -> Graduate Measure Based Probability Theory -> Measure Based Stochastic Processes -> Stochastic Differential Equations.
Most people probably don't know all this material prior to the start of their programs (though I took all those classes as a Math UG), but the more you know, the better you're going to be.
31 May 2022, 01:58
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I highly recommend this course! Dr. Curtis is the best teacher and is always willing to work with you to make sure you understand the subject. It was definitely a positive experience. I definitely do not regret it and I had doubts in the beginning but if I had to, I would do it all over again!
