<p>Graduate Schools for Financial Engineering- MIT, Princeton, Stanford, CMU </p>
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<p>Couple of questions and chance me-</p>
<p>June 2012 graduate of UVA School of Engineering.
Double Major: BS Systems Engineering- 3.4 GPA
BA Mathematics- 3.3 GPA
Dec. 2012 graduate of UVA School of Arts & Sciences
MA Mathematics- 3.4 GPA</p>
<p>I have been working (part-time and now full time) in quantitative research group for local company and love utilizing both my math and systems engineering background and would like to continue my educational adventure by focusing addition graduate work in financial engineering, computational finance, or quantitative finance.</p>
<p>My questions are: -Which degree should I be looking into? Master's or Phd in Financial Engineering, ORFE, Computational Finace, or Quantitative Finance?
-Given the data points I mentioned above, would I have a realistic chance to be accepted to MIT, Princeton, Stanford, or CMU. My research indicates that these are the top graduate schools for Financial Engineering.</p>
<p>Any thoughts are appreciated</p>
<p>Take all this with a grain of salt, since I’m not particularly familiar with this field. But given what your GPA is, you would probably have a better shot of getting into a master’s program at Stanford than a PhD; from there, if you so desired, you’d have a better shot of getting into a PhD program at Stanford (assuming you did well as a master’s student). Since you won’t have been working for very long, your work experience likely won’t matter much. The MA in math might give you a boost.</p>
<p>As for which program to study, I can’t say, since only you would know which is best for your career path. I would add though that as far as I can see, Stanford has only financial mathematics (an interdisciplinary program) and management science and engineering (MS&E).</p>
<p>[Financial</a> Mathematics - Stanford University](<a href=“http://finmath.stanford.edu/]Financial”>http://finmath.stanford.edu/)
[Department</a> of Management Science and Engineering](<a href=“Management Science and Engineering”>Management Science and Engineering)</p>
<p>Given your description, it seems like either one would serve you well, but the former seems a bit more useful to you. Only you can be the judge.</p>
<p>I actually know of someone who graduated from UVA in engineering, was admitted to Stanford as a master’s student in the SOE, and when he finished that, he was admitted to the PhD program. And according to the first link, 15-20% go on to get a PhD. So you don’t have to choose now, and it’d be easier for you get in as a master’s student anyway.</p>
<p>Hope that helps - sorry I can’t really advise you on which subject is most appropriate.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight, very helpful.</p>