Columbia MSOR Regarding the curriculum of Columbia's CVN degree in MS Operations Research

[dadalee]

Hi, guys, I have a question about the curriculum of Columbia's CVN degree in Master of Science in Operations Research: Methods in Finance. I hope anybody who has experience in CVN can share with me.

I really like their curriculum ( just by looking at the class names and their brief description),but doesn't anybody know if the curriculum is more theoretial or applied? For instance, for most of the course there, do we mostly do applied projects or do we just try to derive/prove theories?

To me writing a matlab program can be considered as applied projects. Also, what's the difficulty like of Columbia's CVN program? I am not a math genius, but I am willing to learn hard, but applied concepts.

Also, it will be very helpful if you can share whether you have a good expericne with CVN or not. Such as whether the professors are helpful, whether the communication online is effective, etc.

Thank you so much for your help!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I don't have first hand experience with CVN but I saw this topic came up a few times in the past
http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/question-about-columbia-msor-through-cvn.6255/
http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/columbia-cvn.7174/
http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threa...ancial-engineering-through-cvn-columbia.7285/
http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/or-phd-pursuing-columbia-cvn-or-methods-in-finance.4921/
http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/on-line-courses-on-financial-engineering.592/

coolharvard always seems to know something about Columbia CVN.

 

[UclaColumbia]

Hi, guys, I have a question about the curriculum of Columbia's CVN degree in Master of Science in Operations Research: Methods in Finance. I hope anybody who has experience in CVN can share with me.

I really like their curriculum ( just by looking at the class names and their brief description),but doesn't anybody know if the curriculum is more theoretial or applied? For instance, for most of the course there, do we mostly do applied projects or do we just try to derive/prove theories?

To me writing a matlab program can be considered as applied projects. Also, what's the difficulty like of Columbia's CVN program? I am not a math genius, but I am willing to learn hard, but applied concepts.

Also, it will be very helpful if you can share whether you have a good expericne with CVN or not. Such as whether the professors are helpful, whether the communication online is effective, etc.

Thank you so much for your help!

Columbia's MSOR classes are more theoretical than applied. You do several programming assignment in Monte Carlo Simulation classes. Other than that, you pretty much derive/solve theories in other classes. There are some electives that are applied in nature that you can pick. The classes with number 47xx are truly hard-core FE classes. The difficulty is the same as the on-campus class since you'll be doing the same homeworkds and take the same exams. Communication is very minimal. If you're stuck on some topic, you better learn how to solve it by yourself. You're basically learning the same stuff, but with less help, than those learning on campus. This is the downside of taking classes away from campus.

 

[dadalee]

UclaColumbia, Thank you so much for your helpful comments!! I guess then probabaly Columbia's CVN is not a good choice for me since I really don't like just sit there and deriving theories. ( I am bad at deriving formulas as well).

So do you or anybody else know about the computational finance program offered by University of Washington? I look at their curriculum, and it looks pretty applied, rather than theoretical.

What other online programs have their curriculum that are more applied?

Thank you so much!!

 

[dadalee]

Anybody has experience or opinion about the MS Computational Finance program at University of Washington ??
I really hope I can get some insight into this program, thank you!