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Hi, doublejade:
Could you compare the finance program of Chicago GSB and that of Wharton, Columbia, NYU, in terms of academic side, curriculum,faculty, alumni network, job placement, and whatever?
Hey, all these are competitors of GSB.:-) But you forgot to add Sloan on the list. Chicago's Finance Department is very strong in quantitative analysis. In technological part of IB companies at Wall Street, you can find a lot alumni of Chicago and Sloan, both are quantitative schools. Hard to tell you much details about this. Here I attached an article from Businessweek about GSB's Finance Program. Hope that helps.
The best place to start a discussion of standout schools for finance probably is in Hyde Park, Ill., at the University of Chicago. Though its historical association has been with an efficient-markets philosophy, Chicago is at the leading edge in both efficient-markets research and behavioral finance. Whatever a professor's philosophical leaning, Chicago welcomes everyone who can do top-notch research.
Indeed, the staff includes Eugene Fama -- who actually coined the phrase "efficient markets" -- as well as Richard Thaler, a widely followed expert in behavioral finance. "Chicago is defined mostly by having a lot of cutting-edge researchers," says Wharton finance professor Andrew Metrick. "Their courses do reflect that." Adds Chicago finance professor Steven Kaplan: "Anything that's state of the art in terms of finance, students are learning here."
About 90% of MBA students at Chicago declare a major (which the school calls a "concentration") in finance or analytic finance, which has a slightly more quantitative focus. In most cases, Chicago MBAs declare two concentrations by graduation -- sometimes more -- often one in finance and another in marketing management or international business.
Two courses -- "Investments" and "Corporation Finance" -- form the base of the finance concentration, after which majors must take two more finance classes from a variety of electives, ranging from "Topics in Asset Pricing" to a research course with professor Fama. The analytic finance concentration requires six classes.
Chicago's teaching model calls for a solid grounding in theory before students are exposed to case study work. Thus, the "Investments" and "Corporation Finance" classes are delivered mainly via lecture, though students may read some cases in a few sessions. After they get past the introductory classes, MBAs can expect a mix of teaching methods, though just a few courses are completely case-based: Those include "Financial Engineering: Cases in Financial Risk Management" and "Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity."
The faculty's academic firepower augments Chicago's reputation as a quantitatively focused place with a rigorous curriculum. Though the stereotype is probably overwrought, finance professor Kaplan agrees that the teachers demand much of MBAs. "When our students come back, particularly from their summer jobs, they're almost uniform in saying they're better prepared than people from other schools," Kaplan says. "That comes down to fact that we work them harder."
Most finance majors at Chicago take jobs in the investment-banking field after graduation (Merrill Lynch was Chicago's No. 1 hirer in 2002). Typically, the second-favorite destination for finance majors is consulting, and the third is asset management.
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