How is the Markets and Management Studies Certificate viewed on the street? I had never heard of it until the pre-business department pitched it to me last week. It seems like it tends toward a more business-esque degree (its a certificate not a major or minor)since business degrees such as accounting or finance are not offered at Duke. Would it be better to major in economics and get a certificate in MMS, major in economics and statistics,major in math and get a certificate in MMS, or major in economics and math?
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Do you want to do banking or sales/trading? Or work at at a hedge fund or a prop shop?
Hedge fund would be eventually what I would want to do. But if that isn't feasible out of undergrad either banking/S&T would be fine
If you want to do banking it doesn't matter as much. For trading though and especially hedge funds out of undergrad a math/stats background is a huge help.
Major in what interests you though, you've got freshman year to figure it out.
Sounds pretty worthless.
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It really depends on what you want to do...if you just want to do banking major in econ or anything else with MMS and get a high gpa. you will be golden. If you want to do HFs then it helps to either 1) be a math genius and ace the putnam/do serious research or 2)double major in econ and math/physics/engineering with good grades to stand out from the econ majors.
Would a second major in stat or mathematics be better for a HF
I went to Duke. MMS is a useless certificate a lot of athletes get. I double majored in Econ and CS, and only after completing those was my priority getting MMS. Even so, looking back I realize it was a complete waste of time.
It's Duke, so major in w/e you want if you're thinking banking
However, if you're think HF, I would def say Econ/Stats
MMS is pretty lame - the only reason its useful is because some MMS classes sound good (managerial finance, international marketing, entrepeneurship, organizational management)
Just major in whatever you want, take some finance or semi-quant classes, and be thankful you go to a target.
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