Hey hoganchao which professor told you this ..
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there is no-guarantee that you will be a professional quant after any single one-year program, the most crucial part is to be trained during work. so it is the program's goal to teach you as many as possible, then you go yourself. any comments are welcomed=D>"""
Doesnt the professor sound confused himself where to place his students. Everyone gets trained in work nothing new. he himself says no guarantee you would be a quant after this program.
i remember the student at willmott praised the curriculum a lot also. ok no c++ so many quant jobs go away but thats not the goal of the program to make you quant it seems...lol
Financial analyst, trading research assistant, securities modeler
• Derivatives analyst, derivatives pricing specialist
• Portfolio analyst, portfolio modeler
• Risk analyst, risk modeler• Fixed income analyst
I got this off their website on the information session powerpoint. They gloat up things like crazy. JP morgan goldman, lehman how many students actually got internships there. The best thing of all is that the heading is ""selected sponsor of internships""" and then they name these firms but how many students actually got into any of these firms. I mean internships not projects.
Also how many students actually got jobs in any in of these fields, in three cases the say you can be a modeler but most modeling happens in c++ and there is no c++.
They sound really confused as to where they want their students to go. the curriculum seems good and that student also praised the finance side . Most schools have good curriculums personally.its these things like placement internships , quality of professors, that distinguish programs.
I have problems with this First the internships thing..... then full time ......... hoganchao you want to do economic policy after the program it seems and are not bothered about internships or full time. Any comments or news from others and at the forum and any current student would like to say something please do.
