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Overkill

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Greetings,

In Jan., I will be starting a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the Colorado School of Mines. However, I was thinking about pursuing a MS in Financial Math afterwards. Would that be complete overkill or a good idea?

Thank you for your time,

Dustin.
 
wait until you finish your PhD and then decide. Things might be totally different then.
 
wait until you finish your PhD and then decide. Things might be totally different then.

I agree, besides, a Ph.D is quite long, you can take course and self-learn all you'll learn in MS in the meanwhile.
You'll be doing a Ph.D in applied math , financial mathematics easily falls in that category so I see no need to do the same thing twice.
 
What is your reasoning? Don't you ever want to go out and earn an income?
 
What is your reasoning? Don't you ever want to go out and earn an income?

I do earn an income. I get paid to attend school. My reasoning is that I would think a financial institution might want to see some sort of Mathematical Finance not just a PhD in Math per se.
 
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