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<p>Certainly, Haas’s program is very good. </p>
<p>However, I would say that similar programs at schools like Princeton and Chicago are quite comparable. True, they don’t call them a “Master’s of Financial Engineering”. For example, Princeton’s program is known as “Master in Finance”, Chicago’s is a “Master’s of Science in Financial Mathematics”. But it’s just a name. It means nothing. At the end of the day, the goals of the programs are the the same: to train you for quantititative jobs in finance. </p>
<p>Hence, looked at that way, I don’t know that I would say that Berkeley is “by and far” the best such program. They, as well as several others, are all very good programs.</p>