<p>Applying to Ivy League depending on course and brand reputation is a critical factor. But what I am worried more about is the post-graduation placement prospects. </p>
<p>Does anyone/anysite/Ivy has tangible stats or inisghts on how many students secure a job and in what salary range after studying in ivy league(for 2009).</p>
<p>The courses in question are Industrial /Operations research(Columbia) ,Computational finance(Ivy), MSE (Stanford), PRIME(brown), ETIM (Carnigue Mellon).</p>
<p>Please respond if you have any insight to support this.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>MS or BS? what sort of jobs are you looking for?</p>
<p>MS degree . I am looking for jobs of business analysis in nature. That can be technical. Consulting,banks,products companies are ideal.</p>
<p>generally good jobs available, the ieor department students are highly employable and the department sends out job opportunities to its students all the time, apparently like 3-4 every week. Base salaries for MS students are probably $60-80K in consulting, 70-110 in finance. Bonuses vary, but it’s not uncommon to find students earning $150,000 total first year out of the program in investment banking, trading and at hedge funds. Columbia has one of the best financial engineering programs in the country and operations research is also a great major. </p>
<p>Which MS degree have you been accepted / are applying to?</p>
<p>The big advantage Columbia has over other schools is the new york location which works well in Columbia’s favor for recruiting in finance. Many finance firms know that ieor students are among the most appropriately qualified students for their positions, combine that with it being easy to recruit from inside new york, and you have an appealing package for most employers.</p>
<p>I am applying for the 2011 academic year. Courses in mind are :
Columbia - IEOR(EMS major)
Stanford - MS&E
Carnigue Mellon - ETIM
Brown - PRIME</p>
<p>I have done a year long industrial placement as part of my university course in UK as an IT business analyst in a products company. IEOR you said is demanding degreee for employess, why is it so ?? I am sure not because of stochastic modelling/optimisation concepts they teach? Do they recruit students to do all this work or more of an analytical business process oriented work??
Is the graduate salary fixed/changes after doing masters from above courses/universities?</p>
<p>Brown’s PRIME sounds useless to me (not as technical or math-intensive as the other three). So I’d go for CU/'Furd/CMU.</p>