MIT Columbia Princeton..Which one to go?

TIGERTIGERTIGER

After couple months of effort, I have secured several offers from my dream school. As I dont have any business background, I would like you to provide some advice regarding the curriculem design and career services. Regarding career goal, I am looking to work in Federal Reserve.

AD: MIT MFin, Princeton MSF, Columbia MAFE/MFE, Berkeley Finance (PhD), Wharton Finance(PhD), CMU MSCF

Background:

Berkeley: Double Honor Majors (3.97): Applied Mathermatics and Astrophysics/Nuclear Engineering

Tests: GRE (338) GMAT (790)

WE: Part-time analyst at NASA(3 years). International academic conferences and seminars. Participate into the Gravitational Waves projects.

Working in labs for most of the time and my interview skills are bad. So I wanna leverage the business school to develop my interpersonal skills and buiness acumen.

Thank you Everyone.

phuang01

Berkeley or Wharton.

TIGERTIGERTIGER

phuang01 发表于 2016-3-12 02:16
Berkeley or Wharton.

Because it is a PhD program? But I dont have any finance background. Will that be very hard for me?

postgraduate201

dude I don't think you should opt for any of these programmes. Provided you background, you can easily get into any MBA like Harvard, Stanford and Chicago  after few years working.
But if you want to be academic or a phd, Wharton is a good choice.
BTW, what is your career aspiration? Just curious haha

TIGERTIGERTIGER

postgraduate201 发表于 2016-3-12 02:40
dude I don't think you should opt for any of these programmes. Provided you background, you can easi ...

I want to work in the US Federal Reserve

ting9112

TIGERTIGERTIGER 发表于 2016-3-12 02:28
Because it is a PhD program? But I dont have any finance background. Will that be very hard for me ...

NO! Because you want to work in the Fed. So if you want to have a promising career in Fed rather than a so called senior staff, you should have PhD degree, most senior managements have PhD. In addition, if you just want to work in some BIG NAME companies, you should choose Master program, especially Princeton MFE, I think it is the best program for competing the positions in finance company. Also, Berkeley Finance PhD program and Wharton Finance PhD program are two of the best Finance PhD program in the world, it is worthy. If you are worrying about your background, then I should tell you that Wang Jiang (MIT Finance professor), Huang Ming (Cornell Finance professor), Pan Jun (MIT Finance professor) also have degrees in physics, and Finance PhD degree. So I believe that you could definitely succeed in these programs.

翔仔很忙

Vote for Wharton.

TIGERTIGERTIGER

postgraduate201 发表于 2016-3-12 02:40
dude I don't think you should opt for any of these programmes. Provided you background, you can easi ...

I want to work in the US Federal Reserve

TIGERTIGERTIGER

postgraduate201 发表于 2016-3-12 02:40
dude I don't think you should opt for any of these programmes. Provided you background, you can easi ...

WOW. Is that true? I have never explored the MBA program at all

jhy329

去fed 必须PHD 呀。  IMF 都必须PhD。