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I know many MFE candidates are busy with stochastic calculus, PDE etc. for learning the theory of quant finance, but can I please advise MFEs to take a few data mining/machine learning courses within the stats/comp sci department? Few observations: 1) Not everyone can get that front office...

I know there are numerous topics regarding oversupply of MFE grads in the current market, but what are people’s thoughts of quant finance going forward? My observations: - Most MFEs enter into the program to go into quant trading / quant research - Trading jobs are shrinking...

Seeing that a lot of us on the forums are international students, I was wondering if anyone has been through the employement-based green card process? 1. How flexible are banks in willing to file you under the EB2 process vs EB3 after an MFE? (I know that it also depends on the requirement of...

Little background - currently a risk analyst at a BB, attending school part-time for a Masters in statistics. I deliberately chose this over MFE programs because: - less stringent requirements - flexibility in course selection (I can take many quant finance classes) - more general education...

Just some background: Did an undergrad math / econ degree at a top10, currently working as an analyst in risk management at a large investment bank. Even though I have a math/econ background, my math classes were 'light' on quant finance stuff (no diff eq, no stochastic calculus, only 1 course...