I am so glad to be a PhD student in Frey Quantitative Finance Program in Stony Brook University. Stony Brook QF Program is now in its rapid course of development within Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department after Professor Raphael Douady took over the director position since 2015.
Recent years, Our new director wins QF program reputation by organizing international conference at NYC and Stony Brook in 2016, arranges weekly seminar lectures by inviting many senior talkers from academic and industry, creatively sets up different QF tracks(buy sides, sell sides, hedge funds and big data) according to students' own interests, organizes QF job search meetup in NYC to advertise our QF students, etc., so students can have a great connection with industry, especially the access to Renaissance Technologies (We are used to attend the seminars in its office near campus at East Setauket, Lond Island, NY).
In addition, the tuition fee (it is a state university) and living expenditure here (long island) is very cost-effective. It only costs you a half of the other QF program but offers you great training in Quantitative Finance, research and industry experienced professors/advisers and good connection to NYC. All of PhD students and some of master students have good job positions in big banks, hedge funds, data science companies, etc.
And please keep in mind that Applied Mathematics & Statistics here is very famous in US and even around the world!!!
Stony Brook QF program is really an underestimated QF program, and it is highly recommended for those students who want to take quant as his or her career in the future!!!
