Which is the most preferred course for a quant job?

[Nakool]

Which among these would be the best preferred masters course?

 

[alovya]

phd in straight maths with applied coding projects xx

 

[Daniel Duffy]

phd in straight maths with applied coding projects xx

Pure or applied maths?(?)

 

[alovya]

Pure or applied maths?(?)

either is fine right? i would hope that the coding projects would force one to adopt an applied bent even if they were doing pure on paper

 

[CrossGamma]

There is no “most preferred” or “best”. I work with people from all these backgrounds and more - computer science, statistics, physics, … Banks might still prefer candidates that know pricing but that’s not true for most trading firms.

 

[SD_]

You need to be specific about the job.
For ex:
- FinMath for Model Validation and Risk, not so much in Quant Dev roles.
- MSCS for HFTs, QR, Dev, will be irrelevant (overkill at best) for model validation.

Till now, I have seen some Operations research and Math students ending up in model validation/risk in NYC.

In general if you want to work as a quant {PM/trading/dev/risk/research,etc…} and you don’t know which one exactly right now.

MFE is obviously the answer. It’s basically designed for that.

 

[AppliedMath]

These names are equivalent. You need to compare the curriculum involved, not the program name. Some programs can change from one name to the other.