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mliw 发表于 2017-4-6 22:18
1如果太quant 就不是finance而是fm；
2 为什么不可？
3 ucl is的math programming都没学c++ python， 又有 ...

1. well, what I mean by flexibility is:
imageine you get a major in finance. it is not really quantitaitve.
some of the studetns in this major that are interested in quantitative finance / financial mathematics, they will take their elective courses in math/stat/cs make it a minor or even second major. this is their own business, and difference finance student may have difference minor / 2nd major (e.g. econ, marketing, psychology......)
UK bachelor are not that good in flexibility when compared to some other places.

2. it seems that you have no idea about what PhD Finance is.....or you have no idea what a MBA is about.
the suitable preparation for a PhD in Finance, especially when taking about quantitative one, is not something in the business / finance side, but a bachelor and/or master something within mathematics, statistics, and economics. a finance degree, not to mention a business degree, is next to useless in this preparation.

3. the logic of best MFE education is indeed, get some STEM students in, and teach them some knowledge about the market, and the mathematics behind. Those students are used to mathematical proofs, empirical analysis, programming for years already.
The logic is not to get some business student and teach them the math / programming.

My suggestion is, at least get VBA and MATLAB/R ready before Sept. VBA is easy, and is a basic assumption.
for MATLAB/R (they are very similar, just choose one of them randomly), find a course to follow somewhere. this should take a few months.
if you want to challenge yourself, consider a C++ course in the summer, like the one from Baurch MFE preparation one.

P.S. I dont really know (and care) what you mean by ucl is.......but applied math / stat / phy / whatever engineering should had taught and used some kind of scientific language in their bachelor extensive. If it is not the case, that means either the school is not good, or the program is not science / engineering enough. it is not necessary phyton / C++ / exactly the same language going to be useful, it is about the logic behind things like loops, matrix language, and etc skill.

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mliw

cheesechan 发表于 2017-4-6 23:02
1. well, what I mean by flexibility is:
imageine you get a major in finance. it is not really quan ...

多谢 第一点和第三点我赞同
因为英国本科虽然节省了时间 却不如美国，选择性大。

其实你说programming skills ucl的本科数学也没有教c++ python，更何况其他学校呢。 两者会其中之一就可了， 你会python我会c++都没关系

总之 还是谢谢你

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cheesechan

mliw 发表于 2017-4-6 23:15
多谢 第一点和第三点我赞同
因为英国本科虽然节省了时间 却不如美国，选择性大。

1. 其實英國本科理論上並不會節省了時間的................英國中學是七年 vs 美國是六年.

2. agree that programming 其中懂某些就可 before you are going to a master. of course 到找工作時就不是了......
VBA其實這個數理本科也可能不會教(coupmtation power太弱), 但實在太常見, 不可取代. luckily it is easy, 必須自修.
MATLAB/R之類總會懂一個的.
C++....這樣說吧, C++是一個對pointer, class, 或者OOP之類很好的學習途徑(this is not the common/trivial in some other language), 很多quant developer role都是要C++. that's why you see most MFE preparation class is about C++ *e.g. UCLA, Baurch). (another reason就是不是CS本科缺這個的太多...). C++ is not a substitute of Python. (I really wish that I had spent time on C++ before)

mliw

cheesechan 发表于 2017-4-7 00:03
1. 其實英國本科理論上並不會節省了時間的................英國中學是七年 vs 美國是六年.

2. agree tha ...

如果你有推荐 有无c++或者python之类的online course

cheesechan

mliw 发表于 2017-4-7 00:28
如果你有推荐 有无c++或者python之类的online course

不嫌貴的C++ 上baurch 的。
要便宜的coursera 之類應該一大走introduction to programming with C++

Phyton 我也不知道(&我也不懂)

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cheesechan 发表于 2017-4-7 00:36
不嫌貴的C++ 上baurch 的。
要便宜的coursera 之類應該一大走introduction to programming with C++

好的 明白了 再次感谢下!

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