Difference between MFE, MQF and MMF?

[Sahil Puri]

Hello everyone, I am sorry if this is question which has been asked before but I couldn't get a satisfactory response. from Google. If some one could just use a sentence or two to differentiate the majority of what these courses offer. It would really help me decide for next year.. things like this has more subjects related to computers and this is better in finance because its typically taught in a business school.

As of now my understanding is that MFE is more computer programming intensive and leads to developer jobs. Please correct me if I am wrong.

 

[KB]

I'll try to answer your question in another way.

Education provides means to your desired career. Once you decide your career path, you will have an idea of what skillsets are needed. Then by looking at which program has modules that train you in those skills, you can make an informed decision about their merits.

As you can see, the definition of these abbreviations becomes less relevant.

-kb

 

[Sahil Puri]

fewkb - Thanks a lot, I'll try to find a career counselor first. If anyone can help me here then please provide your input-

As of now I am in my final year of college studying Industrial and Production engineering, I initially wanted to peruse physics but circumstances forced me into engineering, after trying to rediscover myself I stumbled upon John C Hull and really liked the subject, my final year in college has been all about creating stock simulation models in MATLAB playing around with EXCEL and data from Bloomberg and the maths seems really comfortable as the college curriculum more than makes up for it.

The Problem is that I have had only an introductory course in C++ where we used Turbo C++ 3.0 and even though I scored the maximum in class, we only used it for numerical analysis, since then all I have done on C++ and C# are simple programs which build binomial models and price options using BSM model, given a list of stock prices in a txt file.

So right now I would want to get involved with as much maths as possible but requiring the least amount of coding expertise. I am not sure really what my career path should be, what should I be looking for in terms of my education?

 

[tarantino]

So right now I would want to get involved with as much maths as possible but requiring the least amount of coding expertise.

If what you describe about your background is true, you should be looking for just the opposite: more programming, less math. Better still: more programming, more math. But certainly not less programming, more math.

 

[Sahil Puri]

tarantino - Could you please give an example, say in form of a a job listing or an educational course...

 

[Ken Abbott]

From a practical (i.e. hiring manager) standpoint, there is no difference.

 

[M.Sim]

From a practical (i.e. hiring manager) standpoint, there is no difference.

I wish that same indifference extended more definitively to academic pedigree too.