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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peter Wagner" data-source="post: 135845" data-attributes="member: 25130">Thanks for your reply, you pose some good questions.  A PhD in statistics is *very* marketable, especially with the current focus on data.Does it matter where you get your PhD - certain schools catch the reader's eye, but when you meet with a lot of very smart people and they probe what you know, I don't think the school is at all important.  Princeton may get you an interview that Rutgers wouldn't, but it won't get you the job in the end.Agree wholeheartedly that there are a lot of MFE students in the job market, and a PhD does differentiate you.  However, I stick by my premise that it's not the PhD itself that gets you the top job.</blockquote>