Best Masters Degree Option to break into Quant

I am graduating undergrad with a Data Science degree and 3.9 GPA and will be working at Cap1 as a DA. I want to break into a Quant / finance role as soon as possible but not sure how to go about doing so. Should I get a masters? If so where and in what? How can I break into the industry?

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