Best European Quant Finance/Financial Engineering Programme

Say, rates/equity derivatives sales & trading is the goal

Any picks? - Imperial Risk Management and Financial Engineering vs EPFL Financial Engineering vs Oxford MCF vs anything else...?

Also, do IBs/HFs have a bias towards recruiting people from straight math/engineering/physics backgrounds rather than those from more applied/financial math graduate degrees such as quant finance/fin engineering (keeping in mind that this is regarding trading roles as opposed to a quant analyst or any other pure pure quants role)?

 

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