Can someone suggest cheap and best QUANTITATIVE PROGRAMMS

Naresh Abburi · 9/8/12

Hi All,
Myself Naresh working as an Financial products developer for an Investment Bank. I'm planning to pursue a quantitative programm from USA. My profile is as below.
GPA : 3.2
Work Exp: 4 years
Languages known: C++, C#, Unix, Linux, SQL, ORACLE PL/SQL.
have done all mathematical prerequisites in my engineering.

But I'm looking for the program which is a bit cheap like 30k below USD.

Please suggest me either a Quant finance or financial risk management or MFE.

Cheers,
Naresh

Jayanthan · 9/8/12

What about CQF?

Naresh Abburi · 9/8/12

Jayanthan said:
What about CQF?

Planning to do only Degree but not certificates.
And that too from USA because it is one of the financial hubs I the world.

Naresh Abburi · 9/8/12

Andy, can you throw some lime light on my question plz..!
As I'm rigorously preparing for GRE, need to shot list the college soon.

Andy Nguyen · 9/8/12

I'm not aware of any MFE program that has tuition of less than 30K for non-resident applicants.

Jayanthan · 9/9/12

Baruch tuition fee (For the entire program: $24,315 for NY state residents; $35,040 for out-of-state students, including international students).

You may need to increase the hurdle rate little bit.

bassem · 5/26/14

Jayanthan said:
Baruch tuition fee (For the entire program: $24,315 for NY state residents; $35,040 for out-of-state students, including international students).

You may need to increase the hurdle rate little bit.

how much budget do we need to put (living and daily costs including dorms or an apartment...)

C.Y. · 6/2/14

Hi Naresh,

If you mean $30k limit all-in for your whole education, I think that's a tough requirement for the degrees I know of (which honestly isn't a lot). You should probably consider what you want to pursue afterwards and how you want to use your degree. Because the education is still an investment of your time and money, so you should try to get some return from it after you graduate (maybe the benefit isn't more pay but ability to switch to a new job).

ElephantParks · 6/2/14

I think somebody (possibly Andy) has mentioned this before, but there's no such thing as a cheap program if you really think about it. You basically get what you pay for. MIT/Columbia/NYU are expensive for good reasons, i.e. high ROI and long term benefits of extensive alumni and reputation etc, hence the premiums; likewise, cheap programs are cheap coz they are not on par on many fronts, therefore the discounts. Can you take out a loan or something if you're really bullish with this plan?