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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheron_jrm" data-source="post: 287117" data-attributes="member: 42479">I may be wrong, anybody feel free to correct me: I feel like buy side companies are more keen to hire CS/Stats/ML grads. Amongst the MFE programs with the best buy side placements are Princeton and CMU, which proposes many courses in programming, statistics and ML (the P-quant stuffs, you may want to listen to this <a href="https://www.risk.net/comment/6423241/podcast-princetons-carmona-on-the-future-of-quant-education" target="_blank">Podcast: Princeton’s Carmona on the future of quant education - Risk.net</a> ).  From a Quant Research Job post from DRW : "A degree in a technical discipline with a focus on statistics, machine learning, signal processing, optimization". Though, DRW is more of a quant shop than a traditional hedge fund hiring quants to build tools, but it does not mention financial maths.From what I've heard at my company too, people do use a lot of statistics, numerical & computational maths, but not much stochal/PDEs.</blockquote>