<p>I have heard that Wall Street hires a lot of physics majors and that a lot of physics majors go into finance. My question is, would a BS in physics be enough to get such a job, or would I need an MS?</p>
<p>When it comes to Wall Street/Quant jobs, it is not about what type of Physics degree. It can be a plain 'ole B.A. in Physics. Wall Street is VERY MUCH into “school brand name and prestige”.</p>
<p>In other words, your Physics degree must be from either one of the Ivy league schools or the “psuedo-Ivies” like Stanford, Georgia Tech, Cal-Berkeley, MIT, Northwestern, etc or a few others with wall street ties like NYU.</p>
<p>Oh…and that GPA has to be 3.5+ to be even considered.</p>
<p>Some are looking outside those schools. We had more than one of these firms on campus at IIT talking to our physics majors this spring for internships. Then there are the Chicago-based financial firms too. @ GLOBAL is right though, once these firms get an idea that they like students from a certain school, they keep coming back.</p>