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You earn a separate Dean's Certificate in Financial Engineering, signed by the Deans of the Johnson Graduate School of Business and the College of Engineering, which is granted with your M.Eng. degree at graduation. I can tell you that while I wish Cornell would have the degree be FE instead of...

I strongly disagree, Alain. Ithaca is a great place. Because of its proximity to Cayuga Lake, the weather is slightly warmer (albeit snowier) than NYC in the winter, slightly cooler than NYC in the spring and fall, and the campus easily trumps that of NYU or Columbia or any New York City school...

Yes. Dr. Kathryn Caggiano runs the M.Eng. program for Operations Research (the department that offers the Financial Engineering option). Dr. Victoria Averbukh is the Director of Financial Engineering and works from the Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan office. Their contact info is...

Whoa, easy there. I wasn't attacking your stats. I was just helping clarify your post for the others and trying to add to the information available to prospective MFEs. I meant nothing personal. Yes they probably should update their website, but that's a marketing issue and has nothing to do...

Thanks for finding this Andy. Actually, the May 2009 Graduates were almost entirely non-FE people. Only 3 or 4 Cornell Financial Engineering students graduated in May 2009 and there was 100% placement as all of them had jobs by October or November 2008. Those 3 or 4 that graduated from FE in...

Placement: Some did their undergraduate degrees at Cornell in OR and thus were able to finish the degree in two semesters. They (four of them) found full-time jobs last fall. The program is traditionally 3 semesters so the rest of us are in our final semester. For this past summer, I know of...

Sorry for the delay in response. I wrote something back in October but never posted it because I wanted to give a thoughtful response. Then I got caught up with other things and didn't get back to this until now. I will try to post something of value in the next two weeks.

If I understand you correctly, you are a high school senior hoping to start as a freshman at Cornell in August 2010. If that is the case, do not transfer just to take financial engineering courses. You can take engineering classes as an Arts & Science student. Focus on whatever major you want...

Hi Chris, If no one answered this, PM me and we can talk. Third Semester Cornell FE Student