<p>I found out today that I was accepted into MMSS. My ideal end goal would be getting a job as a quant/financial engineer. I'm not as interested in traditional consulting or ibanking. Would MMSS qualify me for such a job, or would I have to go to grad school? If the latter, would being in MMSS give me a leg up in getting into a good program? </p>
<p>My other choice is Berkeley for comp sci... I'm still unsure if I want to pursue finance or software. Anyone have any opinions on NU vs. Berkeley?</p>
<p>DEFINITELY choose NU. Berkeley is a good school, too, don’t get me wrong, but for your career aspirations, NU is the better choice. Not only do they offer programs for engineering, computer science, and etc, NU also offers a lot of other benefits in terms of small class sizes, amazing campus, lots and lots of opportunities to do research and get involved outside of the classroom in sports and other clubs etc. Berkeley is too big a school where it’s really easy to get lost in the crowd. NU balances that aspect really well and it should be your choice, in my opinion!</p>
<p>I don’t exactly believe the question of MMSS was answered, but I am in the same boat you are for MMSS (just heard today). From what I have read on these forums as well as gleaned from their site, MMSS works deep into the quantitative like you are interested in. However, along with this, the financial economics program at Kellog (which it seems like MMSS is a good path for) is unique in its grad level finance courses. MMSS is a great stepping stone to the profession you mentioned.</p>
<p>Besides MMSS, Kellogg cert, and econ, there are also classes in IEMS department that may interest some of you. I am pretty positive that they are open to non-IEMS as long as you have the pre-reqs or their equivalents.</p>
<p>The Kellogg cert program has sent a team every year to Rotman International Trading Competition since 2009 and the team has done very well against mostly graduate students from financial engineering (MFE) or financial mathematics programs (MIT was the only other undergrad team I am aware of). They placed 4th last year and 7th this year.</p>