求finance定位

woogong · 发表于 2015-10-1 17:44:02

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cheesechan · 发表于 2015-10-1 18:53:42

1. Why MPhil? what do you expected from it? a solid education for working in a quantitative role in the financial industry or towards PhD? and where? MPhil is not a common thing in most part of the world......
2. if own department (well which one? given you are in a joint program...), I guess you shouldn't ask here but your senior classmate (e.g. your tutors...)
3. where is stochastic calculus (either R4005 / F4150) by the way...? any numerical analysis / method for diff eqn., stat inference, multivariate data, real analysis?

woogong · 发表于 2015-10-1 20:06:53

Thank you for your reply.

1.I intend to pursue a teaching position in the future, while my current lack of research experience makes it extremely hard to apply for a PhD directly. As for taught masters, I prefer working before applying for it.
2.Most of my senior classmates went to work. I suppose I am the only one who considers applying for a research degree in my own department among my peers, maybe among several years of students. As far as the students with whom I can get touch, they all went to work, or went to the US. Maybe I should have taken a degree in math or stat instead of the current one.
3.I took ODE and stat inference.

Anyway, I think it may help a lot to ask my tutors. I do appreciate your reply!

woogong · 发表于 2015-10-1 20:07:43

cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-1 18:53
1. Why MPhil? what do you expected from it? a solid education for working in a quantitative role in ...

Thank you for your reply.

1.I intend to pursue a teaching position in the future, while my current lack of research experience makes it extremely hard to apply for a PhD directly. As for taught masters, I prefer working before applying for it.
2.Most of my senior classmates went to work. I suppose I am the only one who considers applying for a research degree in my own department among my peers, maybe among several years of students. As far as the students with whom I can get touch, they all went to work, or went to the US. Maybe I should have taken a degree in math or stat instead of the current one.
3.I took ODE and stat inference.

Anyway, I think it may help a lot to ask my tutors. I do appreciate your reply!

cheesechan · 发表于 2015-10-1 21:06:39

woogong 发表于 2015-10-1 20:07
Thank you for your reply.

1.I intend to pursue a teaching position in the future, while my curren ...

1. ask the MPhil student in the department. I guess one or two of them are interested in towards PhD, and maybe also email more senior alumni now in US for PhD. maybe also a couple of professors in the department.......read their CV and you should find some of them with a HK bachelor / master. I guess senior student of your department can have a solid answer about your chance for MPhil of your own department (let's put how familar are you with the prof there aside first...)

2. well, I don't think a math degree will be much better (well a maths degree are always better for those who plan to do a quantitative PhD anyway...) if you have the enough math course with your QFRM major (e.g. best case = from elementary analysis X 2, real analysis to numerical X 2, differential equation X 2, and etc...) since as far as I know none of the professor in the CUHK maths department are doing research related to financial mathematics. It will be kind of hard to have a picture about what's happen in the field.

3. MPhil, or a research master is not a common think. In US, bachelors go to PhD directly, in UK and Canada, MPhil are most likely an intermediate step towards PhD (same for US indeed), while most of their PhD require a master for application. If put aside HK, you may also consider a really academic/mathematical MFE, or a solid master in applied math/stat in case you plan to do a PhD in financial mathematics. [put aside admission concern] What come up to my mind at the very first moment are Cambridge Part III Math and ETH MSc QF.

woogong · 发表于 2015-10-1 21:48:28

cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-1 21:06
1. ask the MPhil student in the department. I guess one or two of them are interested in towards Ph ...

Thank you very much! Your advice does take me out of my current confusion. I'll then talk with my tutors and profs.

0527zjy · 发表于 2015-10-3 16:37:51

If you really want to do PhD, apply for master of finance or economics in MIT, Cambridge (and other top schools). If you can get good recommendation letters from well-known profs, you can get into top programs. btw, I am from cuhk too.

cheesechan · 发表于 2015-10-3 20:57:21

0527zjy 发表于 2015-10-3 16:37
If you really want to do PhD, apply for master of finance or economics in MIT, Cambridge (and other ...

I guess this really depends on academics interest, which OP didn't state....

If OP are targeting for a PhD in Finance (or Financial Economics in the econ department), a master in economics will be the best (e.g. Oxford MPhil Econ, LSE EME, Duke Economics, Columbia, and etc...)
but if OP is more interested in mathematical finance, I don't think a econ / fina master will be a good stepping stone for it. A solid master in applied mathematics, or statistics, or an academics master in financial mathematics will be way better.
P.S.
1. MIT MFin......well, a really top name and thus good letter but I don't think the program really fit the goal well. I will consider Princeton MS Fina instead of MIT if I can get MIT one.
2. Cambridge...well again a big name, but in terms of PhD appliction it is for sure after Oxfor and LSE.

woogong · 发表于 2015-10-5 22:18:11

Thank you for your kind advice. I have talked with my tutors and profs, and they suggested that I should consider mphil in econ as a stepping stone. Cambridge mphil in econ & fina might be one of my targets. As for recommendation letters, well... I will try...

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