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Below is an email I received from the program director at FSU. Hope this helps some students considering the program af FSU:
I can give you a bit more information -- but we don't have easy statistics to report, since we just haven't kept them previously. Now that we have a new Coordinator, Dr Ewald, we can start compiling more complete statistics on outcomes. Keep in mind that we are a math department, not a business school, so we don't have a lot of staff to compile records. It's mainly the teaching and research faculty who run everything in the program.
We have a growing group of alumni in NY and elsewhere who serve as points of contact for new grads. Also, Dr Ewald is expanding our efforts in connecting to companies that have had good experiences with previous graduates of our program. So there are good starting points for students to begin the job search. Except in the rather large Energy sector, where we've placed many grads, Florida placements are only starting to expand now, since many NY banks, e.g. Deutsche Bank, are opening quant offices in Florida due to recently changed tax laws.
The alumni web page gives a sampling of placements for graduates in the last few years -- also please check out the Interviews page, linked from that page. We've put a lot of work into trying to give applicants a sense of how our alumni view the program looking back.
To give you a bit more detail, we've started keeping better records in the last couple of years, and as an illustration I can tell you what happened to our students who graduated during calendar year 2013, and I'll just list placements for International students since you asked specifically about that:
List of positions obtained after 2013 graduation from FSU Financial Math:
Proprietary Equities Trader at Wall Street Trading, LLC.
PhD student in Statistics, FSU
Quantitative Equities Research Associate at Principal Financial Group
Analyst - ETF Trader at Deutsche Bank, Jacksonville, FL
Modeling Analyst, Citi Bank, Tampa
Research Assistant, KTB Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., Seoul Korea
Southeastern Data Cooperative, Atlanta, GA
Pricing Science Intern, Prorize LLC
Deutsche Bank, Jacksonville
Assistant Actuary, AIG
Marketing Analyst, Amica Mutual Insurance Company
Comrise (Big Data Trainee (HPCC Training)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY (PhD)
Associate Quantitative Finance Analyst, Deutsche Bank (PhD)
Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo, Charlotte NC (PhD)
Tenure Track Assist Prof, Roosevelt University, Chicago (PhD)
Southern Company, Atlanta (PhD)
Tech Software Developer, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA (PhD)
Some of these are PhD grads (indicated), the rest are MS.
In addition to these, there were two additional MS grads for whom we don't have data, and that completes the list of 2013 grads (international).
As you can see, most grads do not return to their home country, though some do. The majority of positions are probably outside Florida. We have some good alumni in NYC. One recent (2014) student
was hired as a quant at Bank of America (formerly Merrill Lynch) in NYC.
To my mind, these statistics are less predictive of your own success than what you will personally be bringing to the table in terms of ability, dedication, and hard work. That's how our must successful students got their success...
I can give you a bit more information -- but we don't have easy statistics to report, since we just haven't kept them previously. Now that we have a new Coordinator, Dr Ewald, we can start compiling more complete statistics on outcomes. Keep in mind that we are a math department, not a business school, so we don't have a lot of staff to compile records. It's mainly the teaching and research faculty who run everything in the program.
We have a growing group of alumni in NY and elsewhere who serve as points of contact for new grads. Also, Dr Ewald is expanding our efforts in connecting to companies that have had good experiences with previous graduates of our program. So there are good starting points for students to begin the job search. Except in the rather large Energy sector, where we've placed many grads, Florida placements are only starting to expand now, since many NY banks, e.g. Deutsche Bank, are opening quant offices in Florida due to recently changed tax laws.
The alumni web page gives a sampling of placements for graduates in the last few years -- also please check out the Interviews page, linked from that page. We've put a lot of work into trying to give applicants a sense of how our alumni view the program looking back.
To give you a bit more detail, we've started keeping better records in the last couple of years, and as an illustration I can tell you what happened to our students who graduated during calendar year 2013, and I'll just list placements for International students since you asked specifically about that:
List of positions obtained after 2013 graduation from FSU Financial Math:
Proprietary Equities Trader at Wall Street Trading, LLC.
PhD student in Statistics, FSU
Quantitative Equities Research Associate at Principal Financial Group
Analyst - ETF Trader at Deutsche Bank, Jacksonville, FL
Modeling Analyst, Citi Bank, Tampa
Research Assistant, KTB Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., Seoul Korea
Southeastern Data Cooperative, Atlanta, GA
Pricing Science Intern, Prorize LLC
Deutsche Bank, Jacksonville
Assistant Actuary, AIG
Marketing Analyst, Amica Mutual Insurance Company
Comrise (Big Data Trainee (HPCC Training)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY (PhD)
Associate Quantitative Finance Analyst, Deutsche Bank (PhD)
Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo, Charlotte NC (PhD)
Tenure Track Assist Prof, Roosevelt University, Chicago (PhD)
Southern Company, Atlanta (PhD)
Tech Software Developer, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA (PhD)
Some of these are PhD grads (indicated), the rest are MS.
In addition to these, there were two additional MS grads for whom we don't have data, and that completes the list of 2013 grads (international).
As you can see, most grads do not return to their home country, though some do. The majority of positions are probably outside Florida. We have some good alumni in NYC. One recent (2014) student
was hired as a quant at Bank of America (formerly Merrill Lynch) in NYC.
To my mind, these statistics are less predictive of your own success than what you will personally be bringing to the table in terms of ability, dedication, and hard work. That's how our must successful students got their success...
