Stevens Institute of Technology - MS in Financial Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology - MS in Financial Engineering

STEM-designated program that prepares you to thrive on Wall Street


Reviews 4.45 star(s) 49 reviews

Headline
Avoid this school, the reviews are manipulated.
Class of
2024
The coursework is overwhelming, and the professors just read off the slides. What you learn is completely different from what you're actually asked in job interviews. Even the professor in charge of career development admits that you won’t learn anything useful from his class. The heavy workload and assignments take away time you need for job hunting.

The curriculum is completely disconnected from reality — they’re still using slides and assignments from 2016, even in 2025. The school has no resources that can actually help you. I've even encountered people in networking who changed their attitude after hearing about my school.
It’s absolutely not worth paying such high tuition just to waste your time here.

Also, all the positive reviews are solicited — students are asked to leave good reviews on QuantNet.

A very simple question: if all those extra 5-star reviews are real, then why did this school rank lower on QuantNet compared to last year?

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS
Recommend
No, I would not recommend this program
Students Quality
1.00 star(s)
Courses/Instructors
1.00 star(s)
Career Services
1.00 star(s)
The fees are much higher. Some of the instructors are corrupt and incompetent. I would stay away from this place.
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The positive reviews that you see below are the TAs who worked in the Labs and got a free ride for their PhDs.
  • Anonymous
  • 1.00 star(s)
Avoid this school's mfe program at all cost. This program lacks of diversity and most of students are Chinese. These Chinese students use their own social media wechat spread gossips, rumors and scandals, probably because most of Chiniese students' main focus is dating instead of study. As a result, they think every student are busy dating. They fail to adapt to US society and even can't speak English. They stick to each other wherever they go and use their arcane language to spread rumors, gossips and scandals. Please don't say I am a racist, because I myself came from China too, that's why I know their secrets, and I feel I have the responsibilities to expose them so that prospective students can make better judgement based on the information I provided.
  • Anonymous
  • 1.00 star(s)
Reviewed by Verified Member
Likes:
1. Most profs are good and knowledgeable.
2. Good location.

Dislikes:
1. Career services are horrible, but they are working to improve it albeit very slowly...
2. The program intakes way too many students compared to other programs, hence the overall quality of the students is horrible. This makes most courses relatively easy and often uninteresting, and in particular deteriorates the reputation of the program.
AVOID Stevens at ALL costs.
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