<p>"What sort of positions would be available to someone who completed a MSFin at one of these schools? "</p>
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<p>I feel like I should chime in on the discussion here. </p>
<p>Tier One
U. of Rochester - One of the most impressive things about Rochester is the amount of funding for business graduate students. Nearly 85% of the student receive some sort of merit based scholarship. The Simon name carries weight, as storch pointed out, it is to some extent is “in the club.” Simon’s Early Leaders program is also impressive (although I firmly believe you should have considerable work experience before returning to school for an MBA). And on that note, Simon gives you an option to continue for another year to gain your MBA as well provided you have done will in your master’s program. I also want to point out that the program as an 11 month no internship track and a 17 month internship track.</p>
<p>Tulane - Tulane is probably best known for its energy finance. It is THE school to go to if thats what your interested in. Benetode can comment more about the program itself. But I know the equity research group, aka the Burkenroad reports investment groups, provides an excellent opportunity to get some hands on experience. Tulane is a diverse school. Although it is in the south, its alumni stretch all over the country. </p>
<p>Tier Two
Villanova - School prestige and great alumni connections. The MSF Fellows Program is a great opportunity to knock off some of the tuition cost and research with a professor. </p>
<p>As for UF, I admittedly just don’t know enough about the program to make a fair opinion. It seems like most of the students were undergrads at UF. </p>
<p>There are certainly other pure MS Finance programs you can check out. Vandy has an excellent program. M.I.T. and Princeton have top programs, allbeit a little more difficult to get into. </p>
<p>With that being said, I would really check out some schools in the UK if you don’t mind living in the UK. London School of Economics, Cambridge, and Oxford all have super programs. Recruiting for these programs are mostly going to be for jobs in the City. So if you want to make a three year commitment, this isn’t a bad option.</p>
<p>“U. of Rochester - One of the most impressive things about Rochester is the amount of funding for business graduate students. Nearly 85% of the student receive some sort of merit based scholarship.”</p>
<p>Im sorry for inputting so much, but I need to chime in again here, but the tuition advantage still goes to UF AFTER aid is taken into account:
UF Graduate tuition for residents is :</p>
<p>$395/ credit, in state
$1120/ credit, out of state</p>
<p>This is BEFORE merit aid is doled out.</p>
<p>Rochester is much higher (~3X as high)</p>
<p>“As for UF, I admittedly just don’t know enough about the program to make a fair opinion. It seems like most of the students were undergrads at UF.”</p>
<p>Why does it matter WHERE they come from. A high GPA and GMAT are a high GPA and GMAT. When a Harvard law student came from Harvard undergrad, it doesn’t cheapen the value of the law degree. I really don’t understand why you made this point.</p>
<p>Again, with the higher admissions standards than Rochester, the exact same at graduation placement rate and good, traditional finance job placement…I fail to see why Rochester is “quite a bit better” than Florida. </p>
<p>Maybe it is better to people who are stuck in the world of 120 years ago and haven’t bothered to keep track of which schools are “on the move”.</p>
<p>tomslawsky,</p>
<p>I am not posting to argue, just to share information. I said that I admittedly do not know much about UF’s program and the only thing I knew is that most of the students were undergrads at UF. I didn’t say that it mattered WHERE they came from. Just making a simple statement, nothing more nothing less. In fact, the same could be said for M.I.T.'s program. </p>
<p>Obviously, you feel very strongly about UF’s program and have a lot of useful information to pass on…</p>
<p>Carry on.</p>
<p>Tom,</p>
<p>I appreciate your enthusiasm for the UF program. I was merely trying to gather information. I spoke to the UF adcom and she did say that their program is heavily filled with UF undergrads so this will be disadvantegous for someone out of the state. I think choosing a school is relative. I live in the DC area and the Villanova program is prestigious enough and close to home. The hope is to get an education that can help one breakthrough to the investment field.</p>
<p>^how can that be when it’s a master’s program? unless of Course the program has undergrad-level classes in it</p>
<p>Former UF undergrads, now grad students.</p>
<p>my lord, what spammage, did you even read what I wrote?</p>
<p>I’m not going to bother responding to most of that junk from Tom because any intelligent reader of what I wrote would see he is not really refuting anything but just repeating the same bad numbers.</p>
<p>One note though tmoney; MITs MFin class is actually not mostly made up of MIT undergrads. Its less that 1/4 MIT UGs.</p>
<p>Interesting article on MIT’s MFin here:</p>
<p>[Alternatives</a> to the M.B.A. Becoming More Popular - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574581920638318790.html]Alternatives”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574581920638318790.html)</p>
<p>Storch, </p>
<p>Thanks for the correction. Very interesting article. I have received some information about Tuft’s new MIB program. Seems like a closer alternative to an MBA program than say the MFIN programs. Also, I have read many of your posts here and know that you are very knowledgeable on MFIN programs. The biggest issue for me with M.I.T.'s program is the hefty price tag (is this justified? I guess only once the first cohort of students has graduated will we be able to determine that), but then again, it is M.I.T. </p>
<p>Since we have discussed Villanova, UF, Rochester, and Tulane, what are some people’s opinions on Boston College, Vandy, and some of the UK schools like LSE, Oxbridge, Cass, ect.?</p>
<p>I think Vandy is really good, but LSE is one of my dream schools.</p>
<p>One great thing about Vandy’s program is that you can ultimately convert it to an MBA by going back to Vandy for your remaining classes while getting credit for the previous ones taken during your MFin. So in theory you could get an MFin right out of undergrad to make you very competitive. Then you could work for a couple years, go back to Vandy, complete a few classes, and end up with an MBA that you might need to get a Director’s or MP position.<br>
It might be possible at other schools, but Vandy assures you credit for those classes.</p>
<p>^ This was the case a few years ago so I assume they still offer that ability today.</p>
<p>The MIB from tufts has a bit of a international relations flavor (not a bad thing at all IMO). </p>
<p>Good point about the cost of MIT, not quite sure why its so pricey; maybe because, as you said, “it is MIT”? They have a few good number crunchers there, I’d imagine that they have determined people are willing to pay that much to say they have a degree from MIT, also there is a summer course as well and that adds to the cost by 20% or so.</p>
<p>if you look @ where the UF grads got analyst positions, they’re from firms that have gone bankrupt or are in the ****ter.</p>
<p>also, simon also now alows you to go back and get your MBA in a year.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking what your stats are at the time of acceptance to rochester. I plan on applying soon.</p>
<p>I figured I could clarify a little here.</p>
<p>UF MSF is almost 100% UF undergrads. It serves as an honors program in finance for undergrads who want to get to Wall Street, and it does that well. Most of the people with good placements did the master’s and bachelor’s combined in their four years at UF. The OP here is not in that situation, but if he were instead a soph or fresh at UF, I would highly reccomend UF’s MSF.</p>
<p>I have recently been accepted to both University of Rochester and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Which program would you suggest attending?</p>
<p>To the original poster:
If you don’t mind, what were your stats, and did you apply to enroll right after undergraduate, or do you have work experience?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Hello Everyone, </p>
<p>I am an Indian Female, a B.Sc. Maths Hons final year undergraduate with operations research,statistics and programming minors. I have 6 months part time experience as an insurance advisor.</p>
<p>I want to go for Finance. Recently I gave my GMAT and secured 560(21v,47Q) AWA=5.5, TOEFL=106. Can u plz suggest a relevant colleges for me for MS Finance. I dont wanna retake GMAT. I know RC is my weak point and my scores in verbal suffered badly bcuZ of RCs. </p>
<p>My quantitative skills are really strong due to my undergrad majors and my GPA= 4 in Maths Hons. </p>
<p>Plz Help ASAP. I wanna apply for 2013 term</p>