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Perhaps you should have investigated a little more before making claims pointing towards information and portraying a high degree of confidence in the points you raise. Some of the criticism is very valid but I believe you have to take things into more context. I am sure you don't mean bad by the way.For instance, I am currently an international student at the MFin and I am sponsored by my employer (a Central Bank) therefore I am going back to my home country where the wage levels are just incomparable to US wages in dollar terms. I know of 6 other sponsored students (4 central bankers and 2 other gov institutions) just in my same graduating class that have the exact same deal. A handful of others are not sponsored but they will go back to the public sector in their country. I highly doubt that many international central bankers would be interested in enrolling in a purely financial engineering program, so my suspicion is you don't get much of this in other programs. We will undoubtedly pull the placement stats as our wages (specially in the public sector) would naturally be very low. But you just look at the low figure in the international students placement.... great. This happens every year. Would you say that students like us shouldn't be given opportunities to enter these type of programs? Or the fact that I will be earning significantly less should demerit the program?Should average work of experience of MFin students (median age would be 22, straight out of undergrad, average age is about 23) demerit the program? Also should a good portion of the students choosing to pursue consulting or non-quant related roles demerit the capabilities of the program to place the student body that decides to go for the quantitative jobs? I believe for as many flaws as the program may have, the fact that it is a blend of industry choices does not make for much intuition for a direct comparison with the placements of programs which dedicate exclusively to quant finance. Specially when the students are so early into their careers and there are more discrepancies in the quant industry versus the rest of the other finance industries at that particular time of your career life.
Perhaps you should have investigated a little more before making claims pointing towards information and portraying a high degree of confidence in the points you raise. Some of the criticism is very valid but I believe you have to take things into more context. I am sure you don't mean bad by the way.
For instance, I am currently an international student at the MFin and I am sponsored by my employer (a Central Bank) therefore I am going back to my home country where the wage levels are just incomparable to US wages in dollar terms. I know of 6 other sponsored students (4 central bankers and 2 other gov institutions) just in my same graduating class that have the exact same deal. A handful of others are not sponsored but they will go back to the public sector in their country. I highly doubt that many international central bankers would be interested in enrolling in a purely financial engineering program, so my suspicion is you don't get much of this in other programs. We will undoubtedly pull the placement stats as our wages (specially in the public sector) would naturally be very low. But you just look at the low figure in the international students placement.... great. This happens every year. Would you say that students like us shouldn't be given opportunities to enter these type of programs? Or the fact that I will be earning significantly less should demerit the program?
Should average work of experience of MFin students (median age would be 22, straight out of undergrad, average age is about 23) demerit the program? Also should a good portion of the students choosing to pursue consulting or non-quant related roles demerit the capabilities of the program to place the student body that decides to go for the quantitative jobs? I believe for as many flaws as the program may have, the fact that it is a blend of industry choices does not make for much intuition for a direct comparison with the placements of programs which dedicate exclusively to quant finance. Specially when the students are so early into their careers and there are more discrepancies in the quant industry versus the rest of the other finance industries at that particular time of your career life.
