Anyone knows anything about this program? The faculty seems OK but there is no placement data. I'd appreciate any info.
你被这所录取了么？我被他锯了……
faculty是挺不错的，但是毕业后找工作情况不是太理想，我听说的两个中国的houston finance phd一个毕业后去了阿拉斯加的一个大学，干了几年才回到中部一个大学，另一个在德州一个很烂的学校教书……
well, this is a top 70 school and used to be top50 business school. I don't know if it is good enough for most people
in terms of placement, they are doing pretty good. of course, job searching is all about what you have. some people have great communication skill but graduated from a bad school, but their job placement will be easier than people who cannot speak english in a top program.
Julia,
Yeah, I got in, though it is the only school (and my backup) that got me in. It appears that this year's competition is fierce. I wish I could get in a top 30, sigh...
FunnyTiger,
You said "they are doing pretty good". Are you talking about the finance PhD graduates or MBAs? I can't find the ranking of Houston's MBA since Houston does not have a full-time MBA program. Based on research productivity, the Houston finance dept. ranks somewhere between 45 and low 70. But its PhD placement does not look too good. Of course, I do realize that a graduate's placement heavily depends on his/her credentials.
houston is not bad with regard to its reseach productivity. see below,
Rankings of Departments of Finance by Refereed Publications in Top Four Journals in Finance
1991 – 2000 2001
1991-2001
School Name JF** JFE JFQA RFS Total JF JFE JFQA RFS Total
1 New York University - NY 54 27 12 24 117 6 5 2 3 133
2 Chicago, U. of 42 32 9 18 101 4 2 0 4 111
3 Pennsylvania, U. of - Philadelphia 54 25 3 5 87 6 4 0 6 103
4 California, U. of - Los Angeles (UCLA) 40 15 9 11 75 7 3 0 4 89
5 Michigan, U. of - Ann Arbor 29 14 7 23 73 3 1 0 2 79
6 Harvard University - Boston 36 25 2 2 65 3 3 0 0 71
7 Ohio State University - Columbus 24 23 9 11 67 2 0 0 1 70
8 Northwestern University 29 7 5 17 58 5 1 0 2 66
9 Columbia University - NY 20 13 5 16 54 4 3 0 3 64
10 Duke University 30 8 8 9 55 3 2 0 1 61
11 Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. (MIT) 20 16 3 8 47 4 1 1 0 53
12 Cornell University 24 6 9 11 50 1 0 0 1 52
13 Rochester, U. of 18 26 0 2 46 1 3 0 1 51
14 Arizona State University 14 19 6 4 43 1 1 1 2 48
15 Stanford University 20 10 0 12 42 2 1 0 0 45
16 Illinois, U. of - Urbana/Champaign 16 9 8 5 38 4 0 0 1 43
Southern California, U. of (USC) 18 11 3 11 43 0 0 0 0 43
18 Boston College 16 13 4 4 37 1 0 2 1 41
19 Texas, U. of - Austin 13 8 8 3 32 5 0 1 0 38
20 London Business School 15 7 1 8 31 1 0 0 5 37
21 British Columbia, U. of 16 2 6 11 35 0 0 1 0 36
Purdue University 10 13 7 3 33 1 1 1 0 36
23 Carnige Mellon University 14 2 0 13 29 4 1 0 1 35
Hong Kong U. of Science & Tech. (HKUST) 16 4 3 6 29 2 3 0 1 35
25 North Carolina, U. of - Chapel Hill 14 9 0 6 29 1 3 0 1 34
California, U. of - Berkeley 15 3 1 9 28 1 1 1 0 31
Washington, U. of - Seattle 10 6 5 8 29 2 0 0 0 31
Yale University 16 6 2 5 29 1 0 1 0 31
Vanderbilt University - Nashville 9 9 3 5 26 1 1 1 0 29
Florida, U. of - Gainesville 16 6 1 5 28 0 0 0 0 28
Pennsylvania State University 15 7 1 4 27 1 0 0 0 28
Indiana, U. of - Bloomington 9 3 9 5 26 0 1 0 0 27
Iowa, University of 10 8 4 3 25 1 0 0 1 27
Tel Aviv University 12 2 4 9 27 0 0 0 0 27
Wisconsin, U. of - Madison 8 1 6 10 25 0 0 0 2 27
Washington, U. of - St. Louis 10 2 0 12 24 2 0 0 0 26
Georgia, U. of - Athens 8 6 5 3 22 0 2 0 0 24
Utah, University of 4 7 5 6 22 1 0 1 0 24
Minnesota, U. of - Minneapolis 11 3 3 5 22 0 1 0 0 23
Notre Dame, University of 6 6 4 3 19 1 2 1 0 23
Southern Methodist University 8 6 6 1 21 1 0 0 0 22
Louisiana State University 5 9 5 1 20 0 0 0 0 20
Rutgers University - Camden, NJ 5 2 9 3 19 0 0 0 0 19
California, U. of - Irvine 10 2 1 3 16 1 1 0 0 18
Emory University 3 0 5 2 10 4 2 2 0 18
Georgetown University 7 3 5 1 16 0 1 0 1 18
Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State U. 7 6 3 2 18 0 0 0 0 18
Houston, U. of - Houston 10 1 2 2 15 0 0 2 0 17
California, U. of - Davis 9 3 1 1 14 1 0 0 1 16
Arizona, University of 7 2 4 1 14 0 1 0 0 15
California, U. of - Riverside 6 2 5 1 14 0 0 0 1 15
Michigan State University 1 2 4 7 14 1 0 0 0 15
Missouri, U. of - Columbia 2 6 6 0 14 0 1 0 0 15
mei9, are you sure that we are talking about the same U of Houston?
The one I know they have full-time MBA program, once they were ranked top30 program. recently they dropped but arguably one of the top50 MBA program.
Their MBA placement is very similar to Rice, affected by energy companies... up and down.
Julia,
Yeah, I got in, though it is the only school (and my backup) that got me in. It appears that this year's competition is fierce. I wish I could get in a top 30, sigh...
julia-722
我想你是现在还不太懂finance PhD 竞争的残酷性。看看我，你就知道一点了。我去年申请过university of Houston 的Phd in Finance， 结果被拒了。今年我写信给PhD director，她（Professor Gelb）说我就别浪费钱和劲力了。当然我有年龄的问题（34），但也说明了残酷性。我的大致情况是：本科：同济大学，工程，平均GPA 3.3，后两年3.9(/4.0)。复旦大学 MBA (Finance方向），GPA大概3.8。GMAT 720 GRE 2320 TOFEL 643．
miaohong66:
天~~~你打击我啊，那么好的条件，我GPA跟你差不多，比较糟糕的是头两年高，后面反而不高，呵呵……，GMAT还比你低710，托福跟你一样分数……但是我还没有开始读硕士呢，哎……就houston那么不算牛校的学校都那么难啊……
说实话university of Houston的商学院，起码金融系还是挺强的，而且给的钱多，比如去年的网上就写着，如果你的GMAT有700就可以拿到35000$一年，好大一笔钱啊。它的faculty 还是挺强的，大多数是牛校毕业的，而且年轻。
Julia_722,其实我不是打击你，如果你的大学没有足够的数学背景，希望你在香港好好补补。finance 的phd真的太需要数学知识了，比如stochastic probability。虽然我自信我的数学背景比一般的文科生要强很多，但看来博士第一学期课程安排，还是出了一头冷汗。4门课有三门差不多是纯数学。finance 的phd 在美国要上两年的课，课程的设置和教材都大同小异，比如Econometrics, financial Engineering, 等等都是第一学期的课程，全是模型和公式，还有证明。虽然有的人说可以搞别的方向，比如corporation finance， 但如果通不过课程，根本没有upgrade to candidate 的机会，还谈什么方向？我见过不少本科学acounting的小孩子，他们的数学背景都不是太强，看看国内的课程设置，估计你的也强不到哪里去。希望你好好补补。
好的，我会抓紧把数学读好的，谢谢你哦~~
那么你现在去哪里读书呢？
我到加拿大calgary大学去读PhD in finance。问题不是光你读好，你要让录取委员会的人知道你的数学背景挺强不容易。你可以看看王二狗同学的总结，她的实力和心态都很好。是一篇很好的总结。
我看过的呢~~~二狗姐姐好强的~~
P.S：加拿大也很好呀~~
呵呵，研究潜力不仅仅是数学啊
当然，数学物理博士也申请finance phd......
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