I applied and was accepted to Duke Fuqua MMS program for fall 2017 and Georgetown university MA in Applied Economics. I am an international student and my ultimate goal is to break into investment banking in the USA.
What are your thoughts on the two schools and the specific program. And which would you choose?
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Either of them STEM?
no neither are STEM
Ok that's tougher then. Can't add any more value than TNA.
This is a tough choice. Dukes program has been around for a while and they do have IB placements. That being said, the program is full of internationals and there is no guarantee you'll get banking.
The GTown program is educationally better, but it's really more of an academic program for Econ people. I don't know the kind of access you'll get with career services from the program.
IMO, neither are idea for banking and it will be tough being an international. Which is cheaper? I'd also talk with the program heads and see what kind of career support you'd get and where graduates go afterwards. Duke has placement reports so that's easier to find out. Gtown will need to set you up with some program alumni or put something together for you.
Duke MMS students have the career office of a top business school at their disposal and student do get good placement albeit not investment banking.
Georgetown have little to nothing on its website on career outcome for students. However, I reached out to the director of the program and he assured me that career outcome for students are good with placements in international organizations, US government departments, financial institutions, private consulting firms, and NGOs.
Hi TNA, G-Town is opening a new Master of Science in Economics program this year, which is STEM. Their program coordinator told me in an email that this program will give students more access to boutique econ consulting firms compared to their Applied Econ program (which is not STEM).
Would you think it would be a good (or at least not bad) option for someone who wants to do consulting? (MBB the best, but more realistically econ consulting firms. I feel like G-Town is not a bad choice since they are in D.C., with tons of alumni in IMF, and some econ think tanks as additional options)
The brand is great. Make sure you find out the level of support the new program will have from a career services perspective.
The reason I applied to the Georgetown program was because I did a double major in economics and statistic in undergrad and I really like economics. I was going to submit an application to Olin Ms Finance but I received duke and Georgetown acceptance days apart and decided to go with one of the two and save my application fee for the mountain of unplanned fees coming up.
I'm guessing you'd want to be in NYC? Yes?
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