Hi everybody, I am going to pursue either HEC's MIF or IE's MIF. At the moment, I am pretty unsure on what to choose so I would like to get solid opinions and facts about the two programs. What I like of IE is that it has a really practical approach, the professors are great professionals, and some classes are entirely taught in the “trading room” with softwares such as Bloomberg and Reuters, for example (so great chance to learn how to use softwares). On the other hand, HEC is incredibly prestigious (I would say more than IE) and seems to be more prone to get me a top job. But it looks way less practical when it comes to softwares - they have only one Bloomberg in the school and two/three courses which give them a basic understanding of Matlab and VBA.
I want to work in Asset Management (or something markets-oriented) so I think that mastering these softwares might be a really important thing. I don't know if HEC's proses can actually offset this lack.
MIFs are great and all, but I prefer to pursue Latina MILFS!
One thing doesn't exclude the other!
HEC has a slightly better reputation in Eu and across the world
Definitely HEC. Granted that the MIF's strength (and main focus) is placing people into IB (Corp fin), students interested in non-IB finance (very much a minority these years at HEC) still get amazing placement. I know of several students getting offers/interviews from some high profile funds.
Also, there is a myriad of electives focused on markets. Practically it makes little difference what you learn for recruiting purposes, but the courses you do take tend to be interesting, engaging and often PRACTICAL! (Lecturers/professors that are finance professionals and know the real purpose of a MIF - placement, prestige and network).
Just be warned that HEC is 30/60min from Paris by Uber. I think it's a nice thing, more bonding on campus plus in the first months you won't have time to do anything else than work and perhaps do a blackout to reset/reward yourself for yet another batch of sent applications or networking messages.
I would go for HEC. It simply has that little bit more of prestige. You won't be wrong with any of the two choices but please do not base your decision on the amount of bloomberg terminals the uni has ;) Check out the study outlines!
In the end, I did the MIF a HEC, and I entirely agree with what apuk said. Perfect brief description.
Finance is extremely competitive, and, especially at the beginning of your career (I am sure that later in life it is much more a matter of how good you are, rather than the school you went to), the prestige of the items included in your CV is the main thing that will make you visible among thousands of applicants.
Therefore, aiming for the prestige is definitely a good idea. HEC has tons of it. Just to give you guys an arms length measure, from my perspective, in the western world every Finance school apart from the Ivys (and other top ranked US school outside of the League) and Oxbridge, LSE/LBS lags significantly behind. Maybe Bocconi is a bit of an outlier, though still less prestigious than HEC.
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