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Anyone heading to Columbia Open House?
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remylebeau
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Hi all, moving this post here where it seems more relevant. I've summarised some of the points that were discussed during this year's Columbia MSFE Open House that was held last week. Hope this helps all who are trying to make up their minds about Columbia.
Career Placement Office
1) Columbia MSFE has a dedicated Career Placement Officer - Tamar Senderowicz. She has weekly office hours for walk-in students. At the beginning of the school year, she meets incoming students individually to discuss their resume, career goals and ideal work locations. She also conducts videotaped mock interview sessions with incoming students to establish their base level of interview skills (both technical & behavioral). These filmed mock interview sessions continue throughout the school year. As the MSFE school year begins in Jul, this work is meant to prepare students for recruiting season, which starts in Sep.
2) Organized on-campus employer visits. The employers range from large investment banks with training programs, to boutique investment firms, to start-up firms.
3) Visits to firms on Fridays, when there are no courses. These are informal networking sessions that sometimes lead to interviews.
4) MSFE students' resumes are included in an MSFE Resume Book that is marketed to employers.
Other career placement activities
5) Alumni events. There have been two roundtable sessions this year. These are held together with the students of other IEOR departments. Typically a ratio of 10 students to 1 alumnus.
6) Shadow and mentoring program. MSFE students get to visit alumni or friends of alumni at their firms. Ratio can be as low as 2 students to 1 alumus.
7) Access to overall Columbia career centre with thousands of job postings and employer events.
8) MSFE students are permitted to hold internships during the semester, up to a maximum of 20 hours a week.
Employment statistics for 2010 incoming class
9) Total of 53 students, which is lower than usual.
10) 30% graduated in May '11, 9% graduated in Aug '11, 61% graduated in Dec '11 after having done a summer internship.
11) 20% went into quantitative risk positions, 35% to a trading/structuring role, 25% into pure research positions, 5% software development, 5% entrepreneurial/own ventures, 5% pursuing other academic programs. At least 2 were admitted into PhD programs.
12) 50% of the students went to Fortune 500 firms (e.g. investment banks, large accounting firms with strategy and consulting arms such as PwC and Deloitte). The rest went to boutique investment banks.