Chicago Booth MFin program

Dishay Mehta · 9/15/25

I recently came across the new program being offered by the Finance Department at Chicago Booth. I understand that Booth is highly regarded for its MBA program, but I am not as familiar with this particular program. I would greatly appreciate it if you could share any insights about it, especially regarding the level of quantitative rigor involved. Also wanted to know how is it in comparison to Princeton MFin and MIT MFin.

Andy Nguyen · 10/2/25

It's a new program and we have a few members going there. It has not graduated any student yet so we don't know how they perform, placement wise.

University of Chicago - Master in Finance

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The Asness and Liew Master in Finance Program from Booth Business School

Yuvraj Chauhan · 10/2/25

I've managed to talk to a few students who will be graduating in 12/2025, and I've also interacted on several occasions with the admissions committee.

I'm primarily applying to this course because:
1. I'm open to working in AM, and it has a much better program than the other alternative for Asset Management (Yale)
2. Freedom to structure your course in a pretty liberal way, you can load up on ML/AI courses which help me move towards Macro QR
3. Great faculty and brand name
4. Since it is a new program with a near perfect mean GRE Quant score, I have a feeling that the career services in Booth are going to be working hard to help place candidates in their desired role

A small instance which stuck to me was this instance of a few candidates looking to explore IBD recruitments, the school took the feedback seriously and moved to introduce a new early admissions deadline to accomodate the relatively early recruitment cycle for IBD. The fact that change was quickly implemented makes me feel a little confident in how adaptive and receptive the course is to feedback (I'm looking at you, UC Berkley), and it could be a good program and I'm slightly bullish on the performance of the class in these cohorts.

The only weakness I feel this course may have relative to MIT is the absence of project labs (which, funnily enough, are available to UChic MSFM students). When I enquired about any plans to introduce project labs in the near future by the management, they'd said that it may not happen anytime soon. It could be because they're still trying to find their footing being a relatively new program, but I think this was the only drawback of this program in my opinion.

If anyone feels otherwise or thinks differently, I'm happy to discuss!

Dishay Mehta · 10/6/25

Thanks for your insights @Andy Nguyen @Yuvraj Chauhan

Yuvraj Chauhan · 10/6/25

Happy to help!

wornlaundry · 10/6/25

This was definitely a useful thread.

rajivp · 11/14/25

Just came across some discussion here and got curious about this program: Finance. I noticed that Raghuram Rajan is listed as a finance professor, which caught my eye. Not entirely sure what the structure or focus of this program is, but it seems pretty high-end.

Yuvraj Chauhan · 11/14/25

Seems to be. They've got a lot of "heavy-hitters" as faculty members, including Prof. Dacheng Xiu, who is said to be one of the best minds in ML.

Andy Nguyen · 11/15/25

This MFin program seems on the up and up. Again, it's new and we only hear from a small sample of graduates so there may be some selection bias here. My goal is to reach out to all of my connections on LinkedIn who is in this program and ask if they can contribute their insights, likes, dislikes, etc.
Setting a goal of 10 reviews by end of year but we will see.
If you guys have any LinkedIn contacts, please help me and QuantNet by doing the same. I would really appreciate it. It helps all of us and the program to improve as well. I know they will see us with a simple google.
Just point them to the reviews section

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Yuvraj Chauhan · 11/15/25

Andy Nguyen said:
This MFin program seems on the up and up. Again, it's new and we only hear from a small sample of graduates so there may be some selection bias here. My goal is to reach out to all of my connections on LinkedIn who is in this program and ask if they can contribute their insights, likes, dislikes, etc.
Setting a goal of 10 reviews by end of year but we will see.
If you guys have any LinkedIn contacts, please help me and QuantNet by doing the same. I would really appreciate it. It helps all of us and the program to improve as well. I know they will see us with a simple google.
Just point them to the reviews section

University of Chicago - Master in Finance - Reviews

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Sure Andy, just sent them over on your DM!

Andy Nguyen · Sunday at 10:42 AM

I saw one of students got @20,000 scholarship in the first cohort. I'm curious to see the range of their financial offers compared to the other programs.

Andy Nguyen · Tuesday at 8:41 PM

Another review just dropped by @Durian

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