Georgia Tech QCF vs CASS Business School Financial Math
I am comparing two master programmes I have recently been accepted in: MSc Computational and Quantitative Finance at Georgia Tech and MSc Financial Mathematics at CASS Business School. Georgia has a focus on programming but career prospects seem limited to risk management in the southwest while CASS seems to have a low employability rate at graduation.
I want to work in Risk so I'm leaning towards Georgia, but being limited to the Georgia region for employment makes me consider CASS as well. Also, the whole virus situation may limit my prospects in the US and I may be better off in UK were I don't have any visa issues.
PS: Georgia tech would require me to take student loans with an interest rate of 12% while in UK the interest on loan would be 3-4% for me.
What do you think?
Cass is okay. I'm doing my masters here. The reason of low employability rate is due to them giving offer to anyone that applies early, so it includes people who don't really think of getting a job after they graduate, those who still want to enjoy uni life as they did in their undergrad and/or not having their resumes up to scratch by the time they start uni. Some aren't even aware of the recruiting timelines, which are a bit worrying.
If you prepare your apps well in advance it shouldn't be too hard to land a grad scheme. There are quite a few Cass alumni working in the City.
Is it still a target uni for top banks or is only a target for average banks as they know that most CASS students are actually LSE, Imperial and LBS rejections?
Cass is never a top target, but you will still see them in ACs. If you look at LinkedIn you will see people from Cass from all BBs and BSBs. Do note though that there are so little choices for quantitative finance programmes in the UK, the Financial Maths MSc should be okay, as in top banks wont reject you for networking events/ACs because you're simply from Cass.
I'm doing the other Quant program there, so this is what I have observed
Do you feel like you learnt useful programming skills in your quant programme? Because I looked at Financial Mathematics' curriculum and seems a bit blunt in this regard.
I’ve learned most of the programming in my undergrad, so I haven’t really learn anything new. Also they will switch VBA for Python from next academic year (they don’t put this on their website for some reason)
If you wanna sharpen your programming before you graduate you can choose the dissertation and, say, the ML course in term 3 which is what I am doing. If you wanna improve your programming before then just find a project you like and mess around in R/Python/C++ whilst you have time
Although I am not familiar with Georgia program, I got some fridend in top US MFE program, and most of them cannot land summer intern this year. And we suspect thethings are not gonna be worse next year since the demand side will be siginificantly weaker, especially cost centre like RM.
I am working on market risk in a major bank based on NY, and my department cancelled summer intern and new graduate position for next year. My friend in other bank is undergoing same situation. I believe situation outside NY will only be worse.
Thanks for your response. Do you think the situation in UK will be slightly better than in US even from a visa perspective?
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