Which are the more Quantitative MBA/MSF Programs?

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If I could go back, I would have been a Math or Stats major and learned finance in grad school.

Personally, I feel like I've gotten screwed on the math training in my BS Finance (one quarter of Calculus and three of Stats).

My next shot to formally continue my quant education will be grad school i.e. MSF or MBA. I've pretty much given up on doing an MSFE program (can't satisfy the prereqs unless I stay in school which I can't afford to do). Therefore, I want to enroll in a rigorously quantitative MSF or MBA program or a joint MSF/MBA program. Any suggestions?

Also, does anybody know of any programs similar to Stalla, Swescher etc. that offer classroom instruction in mathematics well into the upper division stuff I'm particularly interested in finishing the calculus series, taking linear algebra, theory if probability, DEs and PDEs.

Note: I don't want to be a "quant" analyst---I want to be a fundamental analyst. Nevertheless, I want to learn this stuff for personal satisfaction and to have a deeper more quantitative understanding of not just the financial world but the entire world. (I know it sounds cheesy).

Any leads on solid quant programs would be appreciated.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 12:49AM by Gouman.
 
Oh yeah, did I mention there were more math majors at the structured finance internship I just finished than business majors.

Being around all that mathematical talent made me feel like I was lacking something. It's not like we were doing math problems all day, so I suppose you would have never known who knew what mathematically speaking unless you gave us all a math test.

Still, I hate the idea of having doors shut because I don't know the difference between an eigenvector and eigenvalue and somebody else does.

Does anybody feel me?
 
I did mine an U of Chicago, the FE concentration is called as Analytical Finance. However if you are seriously interested in Financial Engineering where the mathematical rigour is strong, then you should look at Carnegie Mellon (especially the Computational Finance degree program's)
Other degree program's in FE include U of Chicago (Seperate from MBA), U of Berkeley, Rutgers Univ, NYU Stern etc...
 
Univ of Florida does a fairly good job allowing their MSF students taking quant Finance classes from the PHD program.



http://www.cba.ufl.edu/fire/programs/msf/
 
go to www.globalderivatives.com

and www.fenews.com

great sources for education, and the sites specifically focus on quantitative finance, computational finance and/or financial engineering (err, its roughly all the same thing anyways). globalderivatives actually has a survey with the schools ranked.

and... www.wilmott.com
 
my buddy tells me he went to iit's msf program (computational finance) and loves it (over in chicago).
 
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