MBA and MSF?

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Hi, i was wondering if anyone has done an mba/msf. There are many one year programs for both and combined would be 2 years. Would it look better than a regualr 2 year mba? How much more marketablilty do you have with an msf in addition? thanks
 
I have just the MSF, and it has zero marketability. I'd save myself the work, if I were you, and just go MBA.
 
boston,
can we ask where you studied and what specific industry you are trying to use the msf in?
 
Sure. I got my Master's at Boston College. I work in fixed income, both mutual funds and separately managed institutional accounts.

Seriously, if you're doing the CFA program, I don't perceive the MSF as adding any value. And even if you're not, I'd be surprised if it added anything beyond an MBA. Certainly not enough value add to justify the extra coursework.

An MSF would be good if you had some kind of liberal arts background and your already existing job had morphed into some kind of Finance role and you needed to be brought up to speed. I don't think it's going to help you land a job you don't already have. That's my experience. Perhaps somebody out there has had a different experience. I'd be curious to hear.



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BC is solid. I was asking because most of the msf programs go more indepth in financial topics than the mba with concentration in finace. Id figure that getting a msf would compliment the mba well if that mba concentration is not finance. But then again, a cfa seems like it would do. So in the end, i know this has been asked a million times, but it would be cfa vs. msf. Pros of cfa, less money spent, respectable on wall street. Pros of msf, 1 year formal program, get to go back to skool. However, Hypothetically,would your rather spend two years getting an mba at a top school or spend 1 year mba at top school and 1 year mba at top msf?
 
How many top schools offer an MBA in 1 year? Very few.
 
i am considering this from an entry level hedge fund perspective....
cfa + BA or cfa + msf or cfa +mba(from mid tier school)
 
mba-oxford, cambridge, insead, northwestern, cornell, columbia(1.5), emory, notre dame.
msf-princeton, vandy, gw, bc, lbs, oxford, cambridge, toronto
 
also if an msf is so "useless", i dont know about the state, but the msf programs in europe such as lbs "require" work experience? It must lead to something? And there is a demand for such programs. Oxfords median gmat score for msf is a 730 , pretty sick ay?
 
Well LBS and Oxford are extremely extremely well reputed schools. Its like getting any degree from Harvard or Princeton. You are pretty much guaranteed a good job.
 
Good points YoMama14, however, you are excluding several excellent schools by limiting yourself to one year, e.g. Wharton, Harvard, Stanford, etc...

I'd recommend going for the best school that accepts you.

"Oxfords median gmat score for msf is a 730 , pretty sick ay?"

-- Yes, but they have linked their MFE with the CFAI, which is sick in the conventional meaning of the word.

What is your background and what do you hope to achieve from your studies?

By the way, you might want to add the LSE to the list of schools with a one year MFE.
 
thing is i dont believe in an mba and what it has to offer. Unfortunatley employeers see things differnently. So as long as its a top school, i would rather do 1 year than subject myself to bs classes like markeing, ethics, or operations type classes
 
I was looking into an msf /mba for a few reasons. I wanted to go back to school. Wanted to gain a deeper understanding of finance and prove to be a "quant" for the msf. I hear that there is a limit to the amount of financial classes one can take in a typical mba program. Can someone verify? In addition, I wanted to concentrate in real estate or e-commerce while enrolling in the mba program. And i wanted to make connections. Now ideally if i could do this in 2-2.5 years, i would be content.

How about you imp? Are you considering as well?
 
I've been thinking about it for a while now. My current point of view is to only go to a "brand" name school.

It won't be this year. I'm still trying to get a few nore successes under my belt at my current firm and aim to do something significant, e.g. like originating a major transaction (I'm only at the associate level right now), or landing a major co-investor. I've become quite aggressive about this recently. These things do take a lot of time though.

I don't want to go to school without having a bit of capital to spare. So it will probably be a year or two from now.
 
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