Princeton MFin Princeton M.Fin or Princeton ORFE

[roni]

I just came across the masters in ORFE at Princeton and I wanted to know if someone is familiar ? is this a brand new program ?

Looks like its as quantitative as any other MFE program.

I believe I can apply either for MFin or ORFE... which one would you go with ?

here is the page of the department :
Princeton - Graduate School Announcement - Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Thanks.

 

[Anthony DeAngelis]

If you want to work on the street I would do the MFin. If you want to set yourself up for a PhD go for the other program.

 

[roni]

If you want to work on the street I would do the MFin. If you want to set yourself up for a PhD go for the other program.

I definitely don't want to do a PhD.
Thanks for the reply.

 

[Joy Pathak]

If you want to work on the street I would do the MFin. If you want to set yourself up for a PhD go for the other program.

ORFE would not set you up for PhD in Finance atleast.

The Princeton M.Fin is great for PhD in Finance or Economics or to work in finance.

 

[Anthony DeAngelis]

I think a lot of the PhD's that work in finance are not finance PhD's. Either way, IMO, if a school has a primary MS program directed towards finance you should always go for that over another program.