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smjoneill

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Hi Guys,

I have recently been accepted into two courses, mathematical finance at both Boston Uni and Columbia. I need to know which one is best?

My situation is as follows, I am a Physicist from Imperial College London with no applicable industry work experience. Columbia obviously is a renowned college in a great location, though I get the impression you guys don't think much of the Math Finance course - though I am more interested in pure maths than computing. Boston on the other hand is less well-known, but has offered me a scholarship and offers an internship as part of its course.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shane
 
smjoneill said:
Boston on the other hand is less well-known, but has offered me a scholarship and offers an internship as part of its course.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shane
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Any program that promises or offers internship even before you enroll should be suspect. Even programs like Berkeley, CMU, Baruch who have remarkable placement stats year after year don't promise this.

These schools I just listed all publish their placement stats on their webpages, and I don't believe Boston does.
 
atreides said:
Any program that promises or offers internship even before you enroll should be suspect. Even programs like Berkeley, CMU, Baruch who have remarkable placement stats year after year don't promise this.

These schools I just listed all publish their placement stats on their webpages, and I don't believe Boston does.
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I think he mean't internship is part of the curriculum.
 
Joy Pathak - Hey, thanks for the link but I didn't apply to the MSOR course at Columbia. In your opinion does the MAFN course carry much weight in the financial services industy?


atreides - Thanks for the insight! My message was terribly misleading on second reading, Boston work with each student to help them find an internship, I don't believe Columbia offer such services, do you think that Columbia's reputation overshadows Boston's, with this in mind?
 
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