pre-phd的硕士项目推荐，国内硕士和国外硕士比较讨论-----judy修改

williamchou

想找一些研究性强的top master program 对今后申请top finance phd有很大帮助的！ 谢谢各位大牛给点意见！！！

zzmypster

对finance的master不了解，那种似乎career oriented比较多。
economics的master的话，我知道的UBC的MA in economics声誉不错，而且可以搞到assistantship。

zzmypster

BTW国内的硕士未必差，本科背景很好可以保送。看看CCER10年出国的情况吧，比任何国外学校也不会差到哪去。但考虑value added，可能国外的学校会多些。对本科背景一般的申请者，可能去国外会更合适

大黑狼

If you don't consider the cost, lse econ or mit finance would be a good choice.


zzmypster,woud you mind showing us CCER10年出国的情况? I am very curious about your statement "比任何国外学校也不会差到哪去".

zzmypster

http://www.ccer.cn/cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=11391
所有出国的人offer：2Harvard，2Stanford，1MIT，2PSU，1USC，2UWisc，1UVirginia，1UCDavis。
我觉得已经非常好了。

大黑狼

I think most of them are going to the phd in econ programs rather than the top areas such as finance or accounting, but the placements are still very good.

another thing to pay attention to is that they don't list ALL the placements, only the good ones. u could tell that from the 学号 which is not linked up

http://www.ccer.cn/cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=11391
所有出国的人offer：2Harvard，2Stanford，1MIT，2PSU，1USC，2UWisc，1UVirginia，1UCDavis。
我觉得已经非常好了。

-- by 会员 zzmypster (2010/8/3 22:53:48)

大黑狼

top 20 econ programs intake more than 300 students in total each year, while all phd finance programs across the US intake no more than 300 students in total.  accounting is even less

you could do the maths

of course, if you don't consider the job market after graduation and you are truely interested in econ research, i think going to an econ program is a good choice.  you could certainly go to a better school and receive better training

zzmypster

I think TOP5 econ and finance PhD have comparable placement. A top financial economics PhD can find a finance position just like top finance PhD. Of course most of CCER's offer is econ. Yet that what about LSE econ master program? Would most of them get into finance? I doubt it. In that sense, CCER is not worse than LSE in econ master program. As for finance master program, I don't know their placement in grad school. Yet I believe that can not be much better than top econ master program.

In 2007 CCER admits 40 master students. Most of them are on the list. The mismatch could be due to early graduation of some student there.

brika

两个去Stanford的 一个是去B-School读Finance 另外一个去的也是大牛 兴趣只在econ theory
两个去Harvard的 一个还拿到了Kellogg
那个去MIT读的是Political Science 这个专业比B-School更不容易申请 美国名校这个专业几乎很少从大陆招

大黑狼

两个去Stanford的 一个是去B-School读Finance 另外一个去的也是大牛 兴趣只在econ theory
两个去Harvard的 一个还拿到了Kellogg
那个去MIT读的是Political Science 这个专业比B-School更不容易申请 美国名校这个专业几乎很少从大陆招

-- by 会员 brika (2010/8/3 23:45:44)

"美国名校这个专业几乎很少从大陆招" does not mean "olitical Science 这个专业比B-School更不容易申请".

the reason may be less chinese people apply to political science or the chinese applicants in political science are not as good as those in business