Duke Markets and Management Studies Certificate - Views?

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.