HI All If your smart enough to get into University of Chicago why in hell would u waste your time on a masters degree in financial engineering??? Havnt u heard about offshoring? They'll be able to hire Indians with PHds for peanuts. U need to get into a field where u can control your own destingy like med School, dental school or law school.
It was my feeling that the admission is biased towards people with math/physics background (vs. finance industry/trading); recommendations from your math/physics professor would help a lot. Getting in is not easy, and the amount of workload is quite high (I think it would be impossible to combine full-time studies with a full-time job). PM me if you have more questions.
Even Medicine is not immune. Most of the Radiologist work (Like X-Ray and CAT scan Reading) is already being off-shored
Yeah i can imagine, Dr. Tsay has to be awesome, London school of economics is using his book on analysis of financial seeries.
I dont know sterling, but in my opinion trading the markets is the ultimate "control your destiny profession" how do u control your destiny being a doctor, a lawyer? all u can do is work more hours. besides, even with a masters in financial engineering and a corporate job at an IB u make more starting out than 75 % of doctors with a 10 yr practice.
because there will ALWAYS be rich people to take money from... AND the punjabi institute of technology does not carry the same name recognition as the U of C.
Yes, an incredibly quick mind, from what I could gather from a single lecture. I have one of his books gathering dust on the shelf. riskarb
I looked into these programs. Carnegie Mellon is good. They also offer a non degree certificate program which might be worthit. They are the only school that has shown placement stats. Look very carefully into all these programs. Not all show placement stats. A lot are just cobbled together from different departments and maybe too theoretical. Another option worth looking into that might be easier to get into but w/ good placement is the oregon institute of tech. Still tough to get in but easier than Carnegie Mellon.