Good colleges in the south ?
So I'm just wondering if anyone here attended college in the south ? I live in GA and i'm looking for good schools that deal with finance , although my current major is for software engineering. I'd like to be a stock broker or a trader for a firm.
GA Tech is great for engineering. If you are there, finish it out and pick up a few business classes. Duke and UVA are more or less targets, and UNC is solid. Emory and Vanderbilt are good semi-targets. There are probably some decent, small LAS colleges, like William and Mary. That is about it.
Best of luck!
Don't forget Texan schools - UT Austin and Rice are both pretty stellar semi-targets. If you consider Missouri 'southern', Washington University in St. Louis' Olin School of Business is also pretty reputable. Not sure how well it places finance wise though.
Are you looking to transfer or considering a grad program?
I don't think there is such a thing as good colleges in the south. That wouldn't stop me, though.
Duke. Duke is your answer. And UVA. Unless they got kicked out of the club for voting for Obama in 2008.
Any club that does not kick you out for voting for Obama is not a club worth being in
Thanks guys , I appreciate the insight.
Duke is arguably the best college in the South.
they have colleges in the south?
Wake Forest
I would stay at Georgia tech, do a BS in Engineering, and land a job in HFT or FO tech at a hedge fund.
It sounds crazy, but a lot of finance majors are jealous of engineering majors at banks. This stuff requires a lot of math and that is what engineers spend four years studying.
Anyone who is familiar with programming or tech work knows that Georgia Tech turns out some pretty spectacular programmers.
***If you want Wall Street IBD, still better to go to Princeton and study Econ.
How does Va Tech do in comparison to Georgia Tech?
I think Va Tech is a little higher in the CS rankings, but it's been a while since I've looked. I know a few brilliant people who've come from there and a few people who've done PhDs there. If you grow up in Virginia, want to do CS, and your parents are well-off but not truly wealthy, it makes a lot of sense to just go there regardless of where else you get in.
I didn't have any coworkers from Virginia Tech at the fairly large Chicago hedge fund I was at this summer (we did have Georgia Tech), but we've had them in the internship program in the past.
Again, for the top 20 state schools outside of Berkeley and maybe UT Austin and UIUC, the smart people out there know they turn out some pretty incredible engineers, but the dumb people don't. So some students from these schools wind up making $400K/year in HFT their second year at a prop shop or hedge fund (smart money), and some of these kids wind up in back office IT at Citi (dumb money). And some of these people wind up in some not-exactly FO not-exactly BO group at Goldman where Goldman offers them the carrot of being true FO in a couple years if they turn out their best work and not being able to leave for dumb money otherwise (brilliant/evil money).
I'm not a CS/CE guy, but I believe GATech is better regarded than VATech in those fields and probably in engineering overall. That said, VATech has an excellent engineering school, better than many targets/Ivies (not that hard to do, though). If you're aiming to study polymer science/materials, eng mechanics/mechE, aerospace, civil, CS/CE, etc.. and you have in-state tuition...tough to go wrong with VATech.
Emory if you got rejected from Duke.
Didn't see Davidson mentioned. Would not recommend for S&T though.
Emory
My nephew just took an athletic scholarship to High Point University in North Carolina, which US News ranks as the #1 regional (non-national university) in the south. I don't think it's a big quant school but I think I just wanted to brag on my nephew. :)
Btw, OP. Stock broker?
This. I am from Georgia Tech and know people who are in IB/ST/Corp Dev positions in the south and a couple guys in BB IBD positions in NY;however, if this is your goal and you want to stay in GA than Emory is by far and away your best bet.
Vanderbilt too
I have a lot of respect for you in general, but engineers DO NOT study math.
They don't study math but a typical engineering course is going to involve a lot of algebra and a lot of calculus. And usually some amount of applied physics.
They do a lot more math than 99% of America.
As already mentioned pretty much,
If you want to do finance specifically, go to UVA McIntire If you want to do econ/liberal arts, go to Duke or Georgetown
If you want to do engineering, go to GA Tech (although they have less structured recruiting than the ones above)
I'm personally very biased against UNC because I've met some real d-bags from there so I'm not going to suggest that.
Vanderbilt/Emory/Wake Forest/Davidson/Tulane/William & Mary/etc are all okay, but not really schools specifically targeted by wall street firms outside of specific cases of nepotism.
I know several Virginia Tech grads in high finance, although they are all in Charlotte or D.C.
For what it's worth, I don't know anybody from Virginia Tech.
Ok, for what it's worth, I do...
Southern B-Schools (Originally Posted: 08/17/2006)
What is everyones opinion on going to B-School at either Duke or UNC-Chapel Hill?
How do those compare to Ivy League?
feces.
I would never say they really compare to any of the Ivy's, however, they are very good reputable schools with great programs. Quality academics are a mainstay. The only reason most schools like this will never compare to Ivy is the network of alums you get by going to HBS, Wharton, Tuck, etc. It is top of the line. Otherwise, Fuqua and Kenan-Flagler are easily top 20 b-schools in the country. Oh, and by the way, they are both actively recruited for BB's.
I would never say they really compare to any of the Ivy's, however, they are very good reputable schools with great programs. Quality academics are a mainstay. The only reason most schools like this will never compare to Ivy is the network of alums you get by going to HBS, Wharton, Tuck, etc. It is top of the line. Otherwise, Fuqua and Kenan-Flagler are easily top 20 b-schools in the country. Oh, and by the way, they are both actively recruited for BB's.
Duke is a step above UNC. Both get lots of BB jobs. Neither are equal to an Ivy, but the people are nicer and the lifestyle is pretty fun.
Vandy and Wake Forest are also worth looking at if interested in Wachovia or Bank of America. They both have small class sizes, so you can be a big fish in a little pond...
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