I talked to sea_tide about the quantitative finance major at UA and got some helpful opinions.
Just wondering if there are any UA grads out there who did this major and whether they found it good to prepare them for a career in finance (specifically as an analyst).
There was a magazine UA sent out a few months ago with a female graduate who had been one of the first to do the quant finance program at UA.
I don’t have a link to the exact article, but I believe this is her:
http://uanews.ua.edu/2012/04/ua-culverhouse-grad-marillyn-hewson-named-president-coo-of-lockheed-martin/
Sounds like UA prepared her very well! She went on to Harvard Business School and got an MBA after UA - I believe there were two other female grads in the article as well.
Pretty impressive!