Thoughts on the Duisenberg Honors Program in Quantitative Risk Management

Hey guys! I wonder what you all think of the Duisenberg Honors Programme of the VU/UvA (and more specifically the honors programme in Quantitative Risk Management). It is quite well regarded in the Netherlands and it seems to have good placements. But I wonder how it is regarded abroad. It's probably not as well-known as RSM's Finance degree, but the MSc Finance & Investments from RSM seems to be relatively light on quantitative subjects, while the Duisenberg/VU/UvA degree is really quantitative (it's only accessible to quant undergraduates or economics/finance undergraduates who took quantitative electives). And from what I know Dutch recruiters in the City love to hire people who studied Econometrics in Rotterdam or a quantitative subject at one of our technical universities instead of the standard Finance/Economics people. Does anyone know whether this degree also has good placements abroad? And since we're at it, does anyone know how UvA's Duisenberg Honors Programme in Corporate Finance and Banking is viewed?

https://masters.vu.nl/en/programmes/quantitative-… (link)

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