<p>I am a student from China and will enter U of Waterloo to pursue my PHD degree in theoretical physics. I also get offers from Stanford and UT Austin, but I declined both of them, due to the fact that Waterloo is extremly excellent at theoretical physics.</p>
<p>I would like to know whether Waterloo is a good school in the eyes of the Americans. If I graduate from Waterloo, how much the chance I can go into IB?
Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>ummm… are you sure you’re not going to engineering? Or teaching?</p>
<p>why would you do theroetical physics at a PHD level for IB? Besides waterloo is an excellent school for engineering, but not for business.</p>
<p>Well there’s a lot of people with quantitative degrees in IB. He can be part of the next LCTM fiasco. </p>
<p>But I’m also wondering if people have heard of University of Waterloo in the US, because I’m considering doing an engineering degree there and later pursuing a career in IB or consulting.</p>
<p>if you are smart and if you want to be a quant then you have a decent chance (although i would choose stanford anytime). if you do not want to be a quant, you are wasting your time.</p>
<p>for quant, you should try to do a financial engineering masters after your phd. cmu, ucb and stanford are very good. also you should know some programming.</p>
<p>I hear that Waterloo grads place well in trading.</p>
<p>I do theroetical physics at a PHD level because I love physics.</p>
<p>I want to be a quant after I get Phd and do one post-doc work. I am skilled at programming and recieved offers from Mcrosoft, google etc. when I was a senior student. I also get offers from several consulting companies, including Bain.</p>