Finance School Comparison

gtbsrd2 · 发表于 2006-11-1 06:48:00

I am interested in Finance and can anybody compare the strength and weakness of the following strong Finance school: Chicago, Coloumbia, NYU and Wharton? Thanks!

summerchen · 发表于 2006-11-1 11:46:00

NYU is the last.

Wharton or Chicago similar rank, then Columbia then ...

danfulee · 发表于 2006-11-1 21:16:00

Columbia No1...

cheeyong · 发表于 2006-11-1 22:58:00

以下是引用gtbsrd2在2006-11-1 6:48:00的发言：

I am interested in Finance and can anybody compare the strength and weakness of the following strong Finance school: Chicago, Coloumbia, NYU and Wharton? Thanks!

The strengths are different. Columbia is strong at value investing. Graham, Warron Buffet's teacher and the father of value investing, used to be a professor there. Chicago is famous for its quantitative analysis. BTW, Chicago faculty firmly believes in efficient market theory. It seems that Wharton and NYU are well-rounded finance schools. If you compare the cuccirulum, you will find that NYU offers the most diverse finance elective courses. Just my two cents. They might no be so correct.

gtbsrd2 · 发表于 2006-11-2 13:31:00

Mr. Yale, thanks for your insight.

Have got more information ragarding this topic from Business Week.

The following are the recruiting data for big inverstment banks ranked by the number of students they hired from each school:

Citigroup
1. Columbia
2. Wharton
3. Chicago
4. Cornell
5. INSEAD

CSFB
1. Chicago
2. Wharton
3. Columbia
4. Cornell
5. LBS

Deutsche Bank
1. Columbia
2. Chicago
3. Wharton
4. CMU
5. LBS

Goldman Sachs
1. Wharton
2. Columbia
3. Chicago
4. INSEAD
5. Kellogg

JPMorgan
1. Columbia
2. Darden
3. Wharton
4. Chicago, Michigan

Lehman Brothers
1. Columbia
2. Chicago
3. Wharton
4. Tuck
5. LBS

Morgan Stanley
1. Wharton
2. Columbia
3. Tuck
4. LBS
5. IESE

Merrill Lynch
1. Chicago
2. Wharton
3. Columbia
4. MIT Sloan
5. Rice

UBS
1. Chicago
2. Wharton
3. Columbia
4. Michigan
5. Tuck

gtbsrd2 · 发表于 2006-11-2 13:36:00

NOTE: The following are the personal opinions from someone on BW forum:

Wharton, Chicago and Columbia are the three biggest feeders to investment banks, period. There are plenty of important differences in the schools if you want to dig deeper.

Very quickly: Wharton - biggest, best overall rankings (gen'ly top 3), best known all around.

Chicago - next best overall rankings (gen'ly top 5), most influential & famous academic finance school (Wharton & Chicago are always ranked #1 and 2 in finance rankings), flexible curriculum, most quantitative.

Columbia - generally ranked top 7, newest of the three to get top tier status, has done very well taking advantage of its NYC location, so for example its IB placement is stellar even tho it is not necessarily the "academic temple" of finance that Chicago is (that kind of high finance is really more relevant for buy side, not IB), known for being international, cosmopolitan, having a high % of females.

NYU - I would use as a backup for these others. Generally ranked top 10-15. Finance is certainly its strong suit, and I imagine its IB placement is decent (hard to know though because they don't publish the numbers), being in NYC certainly helps, but overall as a B school it doesn't have the prestige factor that W/Chi/Col do (and some say its part-time program is better regarded than its full-time).

cheeyong · 发表于 2006-11-2 13:43:00

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