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.hi, just wanted to know which is better, university of glasgow, queens university of Belfast or new castle university.
Which programs from each of those universities? Do you have link to them?
.hi, just wanted to know which is better, university of glasgow, queens university of Belfast or new castle university.
Please do share as more discussion will be beneficial to everyone.I can always shine more light on what i know or my findings if anyone has any questions i guess.
Sure, here you go. its already late and i don't have a lot of college to apply for, so i narrowed down to these, It would help me a lot if you could help me sort this order of the best ones as first in the subject of quantitative analysis.
Which programs from each of those universities? Do you have link to them?
I do agree @Andy Nguyen . Take your time with it understand the admission process and fall in love with seeing a pattern from what separates the great schools from the okay ones in this field. The courses you have shown bare no similarity with that of a reputable institution in this field aside the one from belfast which looks balanced . One thing i have noticed personally is i always tend to just dismiss a school if there's barely any math's content in its core modules available or one that dare i say it pushes CFA. I understand the need for this as if people don't get into the top schools they have to go somewhere and there has to be a pull factor offered by the universities. I was initially wowed by a lot of this as well but as i mentioned as someone in your shoe trying to chose a good school, its fairly easy to fall in that trap.Of the 3 programs above, only Queen's University Belfast MSc Financial Analytics program is listed in the 2024 UK ranking and it's unranked due to its lack of data.
I haven't heard about the other two programs, definitely not as popular as others.
I don't think rushing to get into any program because the deadline is approaching is the right way to start your graduate career.
If possible, spend a year to properly prepare your profile so you get a better chance at better ranked programs.
Do you mean a ranking for all European programs instead of just UK programs?Appreciate the work done for UK masters, would it be valuable to have rather than just UK an Europe category that merges the non-US masters?
E.g. ETH/EPFL/French schools etc. should compete against UK masters.
Is this in WIP already?
I don't have anything close to an exhaustive list but I did look into Europe a decent amount, hopefully it is somewhat helpfulDo you mean a ranking for all European programs instead of just UK programs?
It would start with a list of good competitive EU programs which frankly I don't have the bandwidth at the moment.
If you are willing to put together that list, it probably has a higher chance of happening.
Are you up for it?
Seems like a pretty comprehensive list, I would add:I don't have anything close to an exhaustive list but I did look into Europe a decent amount, hopefully it is somewhat helpful
Netherlands
1. Universiteit van Amsterdam - MSc in Stochastics and Financial Mathematics
2. Universiteit van Amsterdam - MSc in Actuarial Science and Mathematical Finance
Note: - UvA also has MSc in Financial Econometrics and a quantitative finance specialization in their MSc Finance
- VU Amsterdam has a MSc in Financial Econometrics, a MSc in Operations Research - Financial Engineering, and a Quant Finance spec. in the MSc Finance
3. Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam - MSc in Quantitative Finance
4. Tilburg University - MSc in Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance
5. TU Delft - MSc in Applied Math with Specialization in Financial Engineering
Switzerland
1. UZH/ETH Zurich - MSc in Quantitative Finance
2. EPFL - MSc in Financial Engineering
3. University of St. Gallen - MSc in Quantitative Economics and Finance
Germany
1. TU Munich - MSc in Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science
Belgium
1. KU Leuven - MSc in Actuarial and Financial Engineering
France
1. Paris-Sorbonne/Ecole Polytechnique - MSc in Probability and Finance
2. Paris-Diderot - MSc in Random Modelling, Finance and Data Science
3. Paris-Saclay - MSc in Quantitative Finance
I think Italy has a few as well.