<p>Does anyone know any schools that have undergrad quantitative finance programs besides stevens MIT and Carnegie mellon?</p>
<p>I don’t see that Carnegie Mellon has an undergraduate major in quantitative finance. They have an undergraduate major in business at Tepper, and you can choose finance as a track (which is primarily quantitative there). But the classes offered in that track don’t look terribly different from what a finance major would learn elsewhere (compare [Lehigh[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“http://ugstudents.smeal.psu.edu/academics-advising/degree-requirements/majors]Penn”>http://ugstudents.smeal.psu.edu/academics-advising/degree-requirements/majors]Penn</a> State](<a href=“http://www4.lehigh.edu/business/academics/depts/finance/undergraduate/curriculum.aspx]Lehigh[/url”>http://www4.lehigh.edu/business/academics/depts/finance/undergraduate/curriculum.aspx).</p>
<p>I also don’t see that MIT has an undergraduate quantitative finance major. At MIT Sloan it looks like undergraduates can sort of craft their own major and so you can make it like quantitative finance (by, for example, double-majoring in mathematics and concentrating in finance, a [course</a> they actually suggest](<a href=“http://mitsloan.mit.edu/undergrad/]course”>Undergraduate Programs | MIT Sloan) on the main undergrad Sloan website.</p>
<p>Stevens actually does have a specific major in Quantitative Finance. Looking at the coursework, it looks like it’s the standard kind of finance coursework you would get at a lot of places with heavy doses of mathematics and statistics. Honestly, that’s essentially what quantitative finance is - the application of mathematics and statistics to finance.</p>
<p>So if you are interested in a career in quant finance, but you want more options besides Stevens, I’d advise looking at</p>
<p>-Any school with a finance major and a math or stats department, or both. You can double-major in finance and math or stats, or you can major in finance and minor/take all of the relevant coursework in math and/or stats.</p>
<p>-Schools without a finance major but a strong statistics and math department with applied offerings. For example, at Columbia you can’t major in finance as an undergrad, but our stats and math departments are strong with lots of undergrad classes that are directly related to the mathematics of finance. On top of that, we have several master’s programs in quantitative finance, so you can take the graduate classes from those programs in your junior and senior years in a place like this.</p>
<p>-Another option could be going to a place with a strong economics department but that also has strong statistics and/or math options. That will be qualitatively different because economics is different (more theoretical) from finance. But it may satisfy what you want to do, and economists with strong quant backgrounds most certainly get jobs as quants on Wall Street.</p>
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<p>James Madison does.</p>
<p>Fact that almost no college offers this undergrad major tells you it’s either insufficient (better for grad degree) or unnecessary (can obtain the knowledge through other majors).</p>
<p>UA Honors Economics does.</p>
<p>Princeton offers undergrad ORFE
Cornell offers undergrad OR with minor at Dyson</p>
<p>Close enough, IMO.</p>
<p>Much more typical in Master’s programs.</p>