<p>I am a junior in college majoring in psychology and I am considering pursuing minors in computer science and math. I will also take an extra year of college to complete these minors. I will still keep my major because I only have a few more classes to take in it, but I will add the minors. I have never been that good at math because I feel like I have been too lazy to do the work, but now I am getting more interested in the math work.
But I have to aks is it possible to significantly improve math skills? Is it possible to go from a novice to get very quick with math? Also would I have to load up on math for computer science?
To be perfectly honest, I wish to pursue another field because there are not any jobs in psychology at the undergrad level, and I made a poor decision personally by choosing psychology.
My other option of interest is changing my major to economics and minoring in math. Then I would pursue an ms in finance/financial engineering.</p>
<p>It is possible to become good at math, but be prepared for it to take a lot of work. Yes, you’ll have to load up on math. If you are going to pursue a MS in Computer Science, I would suggest having at the bare minimum the equivalent of a minor in CS and a minor in math. You will have an easier time if you change your major to math, CS, or economics (for the finance route).</p>
<p>i have done my graduation in computer science i wan’t to do my masters in financial engineering can you suggest me some good university and gre or gmat will be better ???</p>
<p>Hi
I’ve done a lot of research on masters of finance so I’ll tell you what I know. There are a lot of good universities offering masters in finance and math together. If you get into a top program like Princeton or Carnegie Mellon you also get another chance at recruiting from big banks and trading firms. </p>
<p>The jobs that people usually go for from these programs are trading job, because you need a math background to get into the masters programs, because they are basicallly applying math to finance in all the programs. If you want investment banking or consulting you can probably get into that too, but you have a better shot at trading. </p>
<p>To get into a finance program you would need quite a bit of math or at least differential equations, advanced statistics, linear algebra and calculus III. They take gre scores for all the programs, the gmat is for mba programs. Also, to add these programs are pretty competitive so you would need a high quantitative GRE, and a solid gpa.</p>
<p>For a program like princeton just by looking at their students resumes you basically need a 3.8-4.0 in a quantitative major. Also, I forgot to add, you need atleast some experience working in finance like an internship in trading or investment banking or even consulting. You have to be sure you want to do a masters in finance, at least for a school like princeton. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that they don’t offer any financial aid for most if not all the programs, however a strong program will likely get you a job at the end so you would be able to pay it off. In my opinion working for a few years in finance and saving up some money is a good bet.</p>
<p>What is you gpa/gre, math background, and experience, if you don’t mind me asking so I can tell you a program you might be competitive for.</p>
<p>Here is a website with a list of programs in the U.S: [M.S</a>. Programs in Finance at U.S. Universities (provided by Don Chance)](<a href=“http://www.bus.lsu.edu/academics/finance/faculty/dchance/miscprof/msprograms.htm]M.S”>http://www.bus.lsu.edu/academics/finance/faculty/dchance/miscprof/msprograms.htm)</p>
<p>These are not all the programs though. Here is a list of ranking of programs: <a href=“http://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/[/url]”>http://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>