<p>Hi, everyone, i'm currently a high school student and I want to learn financial engineering as master degree when I go to business school. </p>
<p>I know it needs strong math skills and i'm confused of taking whether pure math or applied math in undergraduate for preparing of financial engineering in graduate school..</p>
<p>So, pure or applied??</p>
<p>You can always double major. Since I expect the two majors share a lot of common courses, it shouldn’t be so hard to do double major, or a major and a minor. But I think applied math is much more related to financial engineering.
Normally, you don’t go to business school to get a master in FE, instead you get an MBA degree.</p>
<p>Thanks, how come I don’t go to business school for FE??</p>
<p>I think Wweerr is just saying that financial engineering master’s are much less common than MBAs, and most people who do financial engineering are MBA holders and not MS in FE holders. You can do either, of course.</p>
<p>As for pure math or applied math, it doesn’t matter. I don’t think it makes much sense to double major, as applied math is usually a major within the math department that is simply a specific selection of math classes. But applied vs. pure doesn’t really matter, as long as you take the classes that you need to do finance and financial engineering. Obviously some calculus-based statistics classes, classes in optimization and related stuff is going to be important.</p>