<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am currently a senior in college and am planning to get masters in economics or finance. Can anyone list top-tier schools that offer these programs? So far, I know that these colleges offer the respective degrees:</p>
<p>Masters in Economics:</p>
<p>NYU</p>
<p>Masters in Finance:</p>
<p>Princeton
Columbia (Financial Engineering)</p>
<p>bump, any thoughts, replies will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Well, Princeton would be good of course. I've heard that the best masters in finance programs are overseas in britain.</p>
<p>It really depends... what are your plans after a masters degree? What are your reasons for wanting to get one?</p>
<p>Hi, I'm not the OP, but can you also help me out here?
I'm currently attending Emory University in Atlanta. If I simply want a more prestigious school written on my resume for competitive jobs like IB (for example), would it be reasonable to get a masters degree from a top tier school?</p>
<p>If you're looking at working in finance, I really suggest you go with finance or work for a few years and get an MBA with a concentration in finance.</p>
<p>An MA in economics really doesn't do anything for you unless you're going for a doctorate. Yeah, if you're getting a good aid package and it'll apply to a fifth year for some 4-1 programs then it might be nice to spend another year in college and have a graduate degree, but if you're actively looking at a 2 year MA program in economics with little aid and you don't want to get a doctorate then I can't really see a point to it.</p>
<p>Off the top of my head Berkeley, CMU and JHU all have masters in financial engineering, and Chicago has a 1 year program in financial mathematics.</p>
<p>rochesters MS finance is pretty good</p>
<p>My best picks:</p>
<p>FINANCE:
1. Berkeley - MFE</a> Prospective - MFE Home - Haas School of Business
2. Oxford - Oxford</a> Sa?d Business School: Welcome to the Oxford MSc in Financial Economics
3. Cambridge - Judge</a> Business School: Programmes - Master of Finance
4. Wharton - Wharton</a> Finance Department
5. LSE - MSc</a> Finance (Full-time) - Prospective students - Department of Finance - LSE</p>
<p>ECONOMICS:
1. Harvard
2. MIT
3. Princeton
4. UC Berkeley
5. Chicago</p>
<p>powergrid: I don't think any of those schools (may be Princeton?) offer masters degrees in economics, which was the OP's question. Where would one rank Princeton's MFin program within the top programs? Also, what's the deal with the Wharton Msc Finance program. I haven't really heard much about it. Is it more for those interested in a PhD? It seems like something one would get on the way to a Wharton PhD...What's the deal?</p>
<p>princetons MFIN is most likely the best masters in finance program in the US but extremely selective last year 7% of their applicants were accepted.. I am currently in undergrad but have being doing some research. In the uk some programs ive been looking at are oxford, lse, cambridge, and back in the us at nyu, columbia, jhu, etc</p>
<p>Masters in Economics
LSE-1.MSc Economics
2.MSc Finance and Economics</p>
<p>Masters in Finance:
LSE-MSc Finance
Oxford-MSc Financial Economics</p>
<p>My best picks (terminal masters):</p>
<p>Finance:
<p>Economics:
<p>If you want to go on to a PhD, stay clear of US masters programs as they are not seen as rigorous prep for a PhD. NYU’s program is especially notorious for just being a money machine for the department and not actually being a top tier masters program.</p>
<p>The best masters programs are probably Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, CEMFI, Toulouse School of Econ, Tilburg, Tinbergen, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, LSE, UCL</p>
<p>Canadian programs like toronto, ubc, and queen’s are good as well and much more cost effective.</p>
<p>Would it hurt domestic job prospects if one were to get a degree from a British or Canadian university and then compete with fellow Americans with American degrees?</p>