Notre Dame MSF - Is it worth it?

A little background about myself: Recently graduating from an Indiana University satellite school, in 2016 (IU South Bend) with a bachelors in Finance I am finding that I need more to further my career. I have currently passed level 1 of my CFA and plan on completing the program over the next two years. Planning to grow my career in Chicago over the next 7 years in the trading industry and eventually moving back to South Bend to either start my own investment firm or work for a larger corporation.

I am contemplating if Notre Dame's one year MSF program is worth it. It would mean 59k of student loans, however I feel that it would carry with me throughout my career and eventually payoff.

For anyone that has gone through this program or a similar program, have they found it is worth it?

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It's PT and in the city. I think it's a good program and the brand obviously carries a lot of weight. I'd say it would be worth it more if you could get some scholarship or an employer to pay for it.

 

You should transfer to Baruch.

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what the fuck is this rant. Baruch was sure disrespected by you.

[quote="M7 MBA, iBanking. Top MSF grad. AntiTNA. Truth is hard to hear! But... "] [/quote] [quote="DickFuld: Yeah....most of these people give terrible advice."] [/quote]
 

boring dude.

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ya

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one of my friends out of it was doing a corporate finance job.

If you want to stick with training, no need for any more degrees - CFA L1 works as well as a MSF degree in many places, and a full CFA credential is probably going to be cheaper and faster before you can chase MBA.

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