MFE/math finance Ranking

irisyeah · 发表于 2010-7-12 22:18:02

just curiously everyone's opinion on the MFE/math finance ranking in the US, specifically how you would rank them?

(remember that there is no independent ranking out there, a couple rankings are outdated, the latest 2009 quantnet ranking is baruch's own marketing platform, I can't comment on baruch program, but their marketing is indeed great.)

This following list is likely not the complete list, but should have the top 10-15 programs: (note that the list is not an sorted/ranked)

MIT
BU
Berkeley
UCLA
Princeton
Standford
Columbia
NYU
Cornell
Chicago
Brauch
GIT
UIUC
USC
UMich
Rutgers
UToronto
CMU
NC State
Claremont
Purdue
Kent State
IIT
GWU (George Washington)
Polytech
WPI
Florida State

My pick for top 10: (again, unordered)

MIT, Berkeley, UCLA, Princeton, Standford, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, CMU, Chicago

Free feel to reply with your own ranking and/or disagree with mine

sugarsugar7 · 发表于 2010-7-12 22:19:50

UP UP``

tb18 · 发表于 2010-7-13 00:22:55

MIT不算mfe吧。。

alfredyuan · 发表于 2010-7-13 08:14:06

Princeton's can be regarded as MFE... but MIT's should not be....

wallop · 发表于 2010-7-13 12:05:46

Umich>UCLA

irisyeah · 发表于 2010-7-13 20:21:51

True, MIT is not exactly an MFE. In reality, the graduate at other MFE schools will be competing with MIT grad from its Sloan finance program. That's my opinion giving the fact I know MIT pretty well.

UMich is another great debate/comparison, it's a difficult one, here is what I see:
-- UMich housed in engineering school, UCLA housed in business school
-- UMich - engineering > UCLA
-- UCLA - finance > UMich
-- UCLA career service > UMich (because UCLA in business school)
Of course, curriculum etc. are different.

In my opinion, I draw the a closer comparison between UCLA and Berkeley, a lot of the things are similar/same, except:
-- Berkeley engineering > UCLA (Thus, better brand name)
-- B. career service > UCLA
-- B. Student profile > UCLA

Note: I did not find student profile on UMich website, nor the class profile.

wallop · 发表于 2010-7-14 11:18:46

one more thing we should concern is the brand name in Global cause some people prefer land jobs in Asia instead of US

irisyeah · 发表于 2010-7-14 11:50:59

yeah, I don't know much from the Asia/China's point of view. So you guys should have a better idea of what's more important in Asia's perspective.

It sounds like you are attending UMich? If so, how many students in your class?

Judging from different forum, it seemed there was a couple people who got declined to UCLA, but got into UMich, not the other way around. Of course, this is a small sample to prove anything.

wallop · 发表于 2010-7-15 11:29:50

yeah, I don't know much from the Asia/China's point of view. So you guys should have a better idea of what's more important in Asia's perspective.

It sounds like you are attending UMich? If so, how many students in your class?

Judging from different forum, it seemed there was a couple people who got declined to UCLA, but got into UMich, not the other way around. Of course, this is a small sample to prove anything.

-- by 会员 irisyeah (2010/7/14 11:50:59)

I know guys who declined by Umich and admited by NYU, and also someone declined by Gtech with geting ad from Umich, so there are preferences for school when adcoms view applicants.

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