<p>what is the difference between a masters in finance and a mba with a concentration in finance.</p>
<p>A lot more offerings in finance. An MBA might offer as much as 4 finance courses, while an MS in finance would offer about 8-10 courses in finance. In addition, the MBA is more of a general degree. It is almost equivilent to a designation,unlike that of a MS in finance. </p>
<p>Also, if you want to teach, none of these are considered terminal degrees,which are normally required to teach at universities.</p>
<p>The MBA incorporates a lot more disciplines because it has a core program usually. The MS in Finance is focused solely on finance.</p>
<p>An MBA is not simply for people who want to go into finance. Many with MBAs go into marketing, operations, strategy consulting, IT, general management, etc. MBA students are generally required to take just one finance course..and then can take additional finance courses if they choose (and can receive a Finance Concentration).</p>
<p>What are the best schools for Masters in Finance.</p>
<p>I don't know who offers MS in Finance with the exception of Bentley College ( which specializes in finance and accounting) and maybe Wharton.</p>
<p>Princeton, Columbia and Carnegie Mellon got mad decent programs i heard.</p>
<p>I don't think Columbia has a MFin program. Berkeley, WashU, Princeton, CMU all have masters in finance programs. There are numerous other schools that have the program, but those are the highest profile I guess.</p>
<p>It really depends on what kind of Finance your interested in... there are some Masters in Computational Finance/Financial Engineering which are basically applied mathematics degrees. They are a perfect fit for people who want to be Quants. I'm sure there are other types of Masters degrees for finance... you may actually want to check out LSE's MSc Finance. MBA as people before said is more of a rounded degree. You don't hear about Masters in Finance too much.</p>
<p>Masters in Finance is different from Financial engineering / computation finance. Take a look at Pton's Master of Finance program - they explain very well how its not the same thing as financial engineering or MBA.</p>
<p>CMU / Columbia/ Berkeley / Cornell don't have these programs. Pton does but it's horribly competitive.</p>
<p>besides mathematical analysis, what do people do in big finance firms?</p>
<p>MBA is typically designed for managing a organizations, you need to have excellent management and selling skills while MS finance allow candidate to work under a organization in executive level not a management level.</p>
<p>In other words I can say MBA is advanced level program and MS Finance is basic level.</p>