I received an offer from NYU Courant in February and recently from Columbia MAFN as well. I gravitate toward math-heavy programs. I have coding experience but I don't particularly enjoy coding. I hope to work as a buy-side entry level quant researcher position after graduation. Which program would be a better choice?
COMPARE NYU Courant vs Columbia MAFN
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The NYU Courant program is definitely math-intensive, maybe more than other programs. I encourage you to choose us. But expect to do a lot of coding both in our program as well as in your quant job afterward.
I would go to Courant if these were my two choices. One could make a solid argument that Courant has the best faculty + curriculum combo out of every program listed here on QuantNet. I have them pretty equal with Columbia MFE, CMU, and Baruch in my personal opinion (what you want out of a career and small preferences will ultimately decide which of these 4 you pick). As I said, if it were me, I would pick Courant and look forward to the data science/machine learning courses from Kolm, Ritter, and Dimov. I'm happy with the decision I made, but I would've been just as content if I decided on NYU as well.
This is not exhaustive, but just some of my thoughts as a future student as well.
Congrats and good luck!
This is not exhaustive, but just some of my thoughts as a future student as well.
Congrats and good luck!
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I am currently in the industry.
I would recommend NYU for many reasons.
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I, of course, agree! But I'd be interested knowing the many reasons.
Of course courant. The peer assessment is very high for courant, the quality of the math courses in courant is unbelievale.
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