MBA or Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance?

[FuzzyBee]

The school that I have recently become employed with (in January) offers tuition reimbursement for job-related courses. I have thought about going either MBA or MS QCF. I think an MBA would be more widely accepted, but the Quantitative and Computational Finance route sounds a lot more interesting to me. It's jointly offered by our Management, Math, and Engineering departments. From the description:

This is a 16-month interdisciplinary degree program that provides students with the practical skills and theoretical understanding they need to become experts in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of the models used by the financial sector to structure transactions, manage risk, and construct investment strategies.

Anybody heard of this sort of degree? Anybody here doing anything similar? Should I just go with an MBA?

 

[dquan97]

Haven't heard of that program...sounds like a lot of math and econometrics!

 

[FuzzyBee]

I think it's pretty new. I also think they need people to enter the program. I'm speaking with a prof. Friday, so I should have some more info then.

 

[Dacalo]

yes you should go ask profs and counselors, not people at ATOT

 

[cchen]

What school is that at and what do you wanna do with your career? If its a top tier school, I'd go for the MBA because that will get you further than a MS.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee
The school that I have recently become employed with (in January) offers tuition reimbursement for job-related courses. I have thought about going either MBA or MS QCF. I think an MBA would be more widely accepted, but the Quantitative and Computational Finance route sounds a lot more interesting to me. It's jointly offered by our Management, Math, and Engineering departments. From the description:

This is a 16-month interdisciplinary degree program that provides students with the practical skills and theoretical understanding they need to become experts in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of the models used by the financial sector to structure transactions, manage risk, and construct investment strategies.

Anybody heard of this sort of degree? Anybody here doing anything similar? Should I just go with an MBA?

I work in a quantitative, financial group, so a degree like this would be right up our alley. It's really an exciting field if you like stat/math/finance. Having said that, I would say go with the MBA. It is more widely recognized (even though I don't think you will learn squat), and you will gain a lot more general knowledge.