Which is Better for HF?

What will give someone the best options post Master's degree:

A finance education focusing on portfolio management, investments, derivatives etc (Just finance)

or

An Information Systems education (SQL, Java, Data Mining, Etc) with an investments class. I know that finance is getting more technical and I am considering this road.

The end goal is working at a Hedge Fund in an Investment Analyst role. I would like to hear from people who either know a lot of people who go into hedge fund roles or are in them currently.

*Also, what is a good role (Not IBD Analyst) and good companies to start at? I would prefer to work at a Global Macro fund, but I am not picky. 1 year of full time work experience. I am trying to figure out whats the next move.

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Information Systems? That shit is for network and database admins.

Computer science, engineering, math degrees, etc would be solid combined with finance courses to show interest.

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