<p>If I want to go to wall street and get a job related to stock trading or investments, what kind of major is most related, or it doesn't really matter?</p>
<p>Usually Haas or some kind of mathematical major would be best (comp. sci., math, statistics, etc). Although, Berkeley is not the right school for wall street. Berkeley doesn’t usually send people to wall street, they do to San Francisco instead.</p>
<p>I don’t see what’s so different about wall street. All the <em>same</em> bulge bracket firms are in SF… and they recruit heavily from Berkeley… o__O</p>
<p>Probably something like what is described here: [Master</a> of Financial Engineering Program - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://mfe.haas.berkeley.edu/]Master”>http://mfe.haas.berkeley.edu/)</p>
<p>For undergraduates, including [prerequisite</a> courses for the above program](<a href=“http://mfe.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/prerequisites.html]prerequisite”>http://mfe.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/prerequisites.html) in your studies may be helpful, whether or not you actually later enter the above program.</p>
<p>Working in “investments” and “stocks” is very vague because almost every finance job out there deals with this. For non-quant jobs, such as the normal ibanking and S&T, any degree can suffice although I think Haas may give you an advantage. For quant jobs, like working as a portfolio manager at a quant-based hedge fund, then some sort of heavy math degree coupled with programming courses is a MUST.</p>
<p>Although, most people aim for the traditional, non-quant roles because they are less elusive than the quant-roles.</p>
<p>Re demoz:
Thanks for the replying. But I am still confused with ibanking and stock trading jobs. If I want to do some stock trade related job in the future like the big guy in the Wall street movie, should I look for an ibanking job or some other job positions? I am still very unclear about how those industries related to each other.</p>
<p>MFE without a doubt.
[Placement</a> Reports, Master of Financial Engineering Program - Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley](<a href=“Master of Financial Engineering Program | Berkeley Haas”>Master of Financial Engineering Program | Berkeley Haas)
Placement has held steady at 95-100% even through the ongoing economic downturn.</p>
<p>But this is a postgraduate program with very competitive admissions. Ignore the “work experience preferred but not required” line…just look at the student profiles and everyone has substantial experience. This is just like an MBA except you jump right into quantitative finance instead of spending a year taking gen ed requirements like accounting, marketing, supply chain, organizational behavior, etc.</p>