whatever you decide, be sure to find a career that cant be shipped to China vai a T1 broadband line and sent back...... some fast food joints hook up their drive thru order microphone to a call center in another city... and they take the order and enter it into the comp.... poor bastard $5.50/hr. job gets eliminated.... a warning shot to all these Radiologists that sit at home reading hospital cat sans on their home PC...... that stuff may go to somebody in Bangladesh for a tenth the cost...
If this is the case, you can just basically eliminated every single job in the US or UK or most expensive salary-base places.. including your own. Why not hire a CEO/managers in India.. for 1/10 the cost and have them teleconference over. that still works. Why not hire a pharmacist overseas and have people in UK or US scan in the prescription, sent it over and then sent it back to a low level worker to give out prescriptioin.. (they are experimenting with the idea in the US now you know). Why not hire bank tellers overseas and let people here talk to a telephone and wire money back and forth. (oh, there is online banking now.. so why even need anybody) Only person won't be replace are santiation workers or janitors or painters ... they HAVE TO PHYSICALLY BE THERE. Oh, and then when there is a robotic revolution.. you can forget those jobs too.
prt_systems has the right idea in many respects, but it does come down to what you want to do with your life. While Stanford is one of the best places on the planet to learn how to be an entrepreneur, if you plan on being a trader and or Analyst, you might want to consider The Drucker School. But I have one concern here: why are you NOT seeking out a quality program where you can do both? Something like Cornell's Financial Engineering MBA, Carnegie Mellon's MBA in Financial Engineering or better still Double Majoring at Berkeley? If I were you, I would really be considering the double major option at Berkeley scaling my MBA studies back to part-time [if they allow it] once you've completed you MFE classes -- trading all the way through. I would love to have your options, I am stuck with Stevens Institute's Financial Engineering program & Creighton U's MS in Securities Analysis -- and I am elated to have those as options mind you -- but you have an opportunity to possibily learn from the what many might call the best. I mean really... if you close to what you say you are trading -- this might be the ONLY real option. Why? Let me put it this way: your the Hiring Manager at CTC and you have three candidates you're considering 1) M.S. Finance from U of Chicago 2) MBA from Stanford 3) M.S. Financial Engineering & MBA from Berkeley w/ 3-5 years experience trading WHO ARE YOU GOING TO HIRING? That's what I thought. If nothing more than the avoiding the opportunity cost of this guy becoming your competition, you hire number 3 -- unless he interviews poorly. Hell even UCLA offers quality MBA & M.S. Financial Engineering programs... Not Stanford or Berkeley [which are recognized internationally], but still more than very respectable state-side. I narrowed my selections to schools that offered online course work [Stevens Institute's Financial Engineering program & Creighton U's MS in Securities Analysis ] entirely online. You have options...
prt_systems has the right idea in many respects, but it does come down to what you want to do with your life. While Stanford is one of the best places on the planet to learn how to be an entrepreneur, if you plan on being a trader and or Analyst, you might want to consider The Drucker School. But I have one concern here: why are you NOT seeking out a quality program where you can do both? Something like Cornell's Financial Engineering MBA, Carnegie Mellon's MBA in Financial Engineering or better still Double Majoring at Berkeley? If I were you, I would really be considering the double major option at Berkeley scaling my MBA studies back to part-time [if they allow it] once you've completed you MFE classes -- trading all the way through. I would love to have your options, I am stuck with Stevens Institute's Financial Engineering program & Creighton U's MS in Securities Analysis -- and I am elated to have those as options mind you -- but you have an opportunity to possibily learn from the what many might call the best. I mean really... if you close to what you say you are trading -- this might be the ONLY real option. Why? Let me put it this way: your the Hiring Manager at CTC and you have three candidates you're considering 1) M.S. Finance from U of Chicago 2) MBA from Stanford 3) M.S. Financial Engineering & MBA from Berkeley w/ 3-5 years experience trading WHO ARE YOU GOING TO HIRING? That's what I thought. If nothing more than the avoiding the opportunity cost of this guy becoming your competition, you hire number 3 -- unless he interviews poorly. Hell even UCLA offers quality MBA & M.S. Financial Engineering programs... Not Stanford or Berkeley [which are recognized internationally], but still more than very respectable state-side. I narrowed my selections to schools that offered online course work [Stevens Institute's Financial Engineering program & Creighton U's MS in Securities Analysis ] entirely online. You have options...
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) has an Investment Strategy track now. For that track, they offer a course 'alpha' that is probably most trading/investing related.
Just going for the CFA designation, which is on par with PhD's in some NYC jobs. If you've ever looked at recruiting sites, they'll take PhD in finance or CFA in most cases. Just something to think about, because it would be a lot cheaper.