工科硕士申请经济金融PHD的可能性有多大？

lzn

我是在法国读工程类的，同时读工程师和硕士，ecole des mines，但不是巴黎那个，我想申请欧洲的经济和金融类phd，不知道有没有可能性，很郁闷，因为工程师学校要求托福或者托业才能拿学位，我考了一下，托业是930，还挺高的，我觉得如果在考个GMAT或tagemage（法国）的话，还可以申请高商的phd，但我不知道有没有先例，工科硕士申请到经济金融的phd的，尤其在欧洲。

大家帮忙分析一下吧，不胜感激。

lzn

没有人有这方面的经验吗？

fzxc613

貌似没有。。不好意思啊

ProfCPA

I saw some in the US. Not sure in the Europe.

lzn

他们都怎么申请上的呢？

我问老师，老师根本没告诉我是不是有机会，就跟我说交材料申请就是了。

lesliejy

a bit diffcult, i would say. traditional european schools like students with master level background in economics and finance. (us schools might prefer mathematician/statistician/engineering student over economist.)  i guess there is no doubt you had a lot math courses, which are typical for engineering students. however, do you have any credits on economics and finance? if not, ask yourself below questions before you start to apply.

1) why economics/finance, given your engineering background?
2) what is your advantage when compared to applicants with a master in economics/finance? (modeling dynamic system? solving PDEs? stochastic calculus? computational methods? you must be acquainted with at least one or two computer language(s), right? the popular ones in economics and finance are matlab/octave, mathematica, gauss, r/splus, c/c++, fotran, java, among others. )
3) do you want to have a scholarship? if not, it would not be that difficult to be accepted. as you are probably in france, you know how low the tuition is for schools in france, gemany, austria, switzerland, netherland, belgium, etc (but not England). if you need a scholarship to finance your study and life, you have to manange to answer question 1) and 2) nicely to convince people that you are better candidates than others.

I hope these help you.

Cheers,
Jin

lzn

我就是研究modeling dynamic system的，解决工业体系中的optimisation问题，就是如何以最小的成本生产最大价值的商品，还有工业企业的一些重组问题和效率问题。

计算机语言C，VC，VB，java都是必须的。

我觉得很多人误解了欧洲的学费问题，比如英国和瑞士，伦敦政经4万多英镑，瑞士IMD5万多欧元，这个要看学校的体制，还有一个，有的国家给博士的签证想当于工作visa，所以没收入的话很难过警察局那关。

法国的business school，私立的，phd最少读4年，第一年是specialisation的课程，从宏观到微观经济，还有finance的一些课程，主要根据专业不同而不同。

其他欧洲国家基本都是三年，课程我就不太清楚了。

谢谢楼上各位的回复，我只准备申请一个经济学校，不行的话就跟我导师混迹于industrial system好了。

lesliejy

我就是研究modeling dynamic system的，解决工业体系中的optimisation问题，就是如何以最小的成本生产最大价值的商品，还有工业企业的一些重组问题和效率问题。

计算机语言C，VC，VB，java都是必须的。

well, then you can try economics, for sure. if you are interested in financial economics, then you might want to take a look at asset pricing literature, in which you can find a lot dynamic programming (bellman optimality, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, general equilibrium, etc.) my suggestion:  go to the econ/fin department of your school, tell the people there your background and ask them for advise, as well.

我觉得很多人误解了欧洲的学费问题，比如英国和瑞士，伦敦政经4万多英镑，瑞士IMD5万多欧元，这个要看学校的体制，还有一个，有的国家给博士的签证想当于工作visa，所以没收入的话很难过警察局那关。
don't get me wrong. first of all, i explicitly move english schools out of the total set of european schools. btw, to my knowledge, the above two you mentioned are for mba and/or prefessional masters, but not phd, aren't they?

anyway, good luck.