Is there an overview of what college and universities that have actual trading floors for their students? Or to narrow it even further down, are there are schools in central Chicago that have actual trading rooms? I seem unable to find any such information on CCC, UC Chicago or Northwestern.
Thanks.
Hmmm, I know of two University of Richmond and Villanova.
Honestly, all you need to trade in 2018 is a computer.
I think what you are looking for is an actual student managed fund that trade the stock and bond market. I know two: University of Texas (Austin) and Trinity University (San Antonio). UT does have a trading room, with stock tickers running around the room.
I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but perhaps this would be helpful http://universityfinancelab.com/directory/
Why do you think you need a “trading room”? And I ask this as a person who is in the financial industry, where one of our traders sits 5 feet outside my office.
Bentley University in Waltham MA just outside of Boston has a working Trading Floor.
Babson has one too if I remember, but the Bentley room was bigger and more sophisticated.
Ithaca College had one. https://www.ithaca.edu/business/investment/tradingroom/
I think every college we visited that had a business school had one. They are pretty common these days.
Trading rooms are very common in b-schools. They are also not a big deal – you can get the information from any computer. I’d instead focus on finding schools that have the major and the classes you want.
Bentley started it several yrs ago but now many of the top business schools have trading floors with Bloomberg terminals and much of the software that professionals use.
I think I remember seeing one at U Delaware & U of Denver. I agree they were a much bigger deal 25+ years ago.
A Bloomberg “terminal” is pretty archaic these days as Bloomberg for the professional trading world functions as a software package that you can use anywhere on your own connected computer or even your smartphone - one of the reasons an actual trading room is no longer needed IRL.
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