URGENT: MSF WUSTL or UoR!!

Hi,

I am an international student who has been admitted to MSF programs at WUSTL(Corp Fin & Investments track) and also at University of Rochester(with 40% tuition scholarship). I have to choose a university soon. I understand that WUSTL MSF is more reknowned than UoR, However will it help me get a corp fin/Asset Management job in New York City or Chicago? WUSTL has very good placements but they are concentrated in St Louis/Mid west region. I don't know if it is worth paying 52K in tuition to WUSTL if I want a job in NY. Is the school and program reputed in the NYC & Chicago markets? My prior work experience is in sales and marketing with a bank....Please advise!!

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ANT always says that MSFs tend to place locally so if you want to work in NY then maybe Rochester is the better choice but I'm no expert...

 

No, your logic was fine. Just NYS is a big place. WUSTL is high in the UG and MBA rankings for schools. They have banking placements. St. Louis is a bigger city than Rochester, on and on.

 

WUSTL places all over. I wouldn't say it has a core NYC focus, but you can get to NYC from Rochester.

To be clear, you are discussing the main campus Rochester MSF, correct. Not the NYC program.

 

I attended one of these schools for MS. Rochester will give you a little more exposure to the industry in NYC with a stronger support base in the area, I suppose. WUSTL is a better school, but doesn't offer the exposure to Chicago you might believe.

At both places, you are going to have to go pro at networking to get a good FT gig in NYC. From my school's standpoint, the program overstated their masters "placements" quite a bit.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference to you, but I believe that both programs were mostly international, with a comparatively higher % of Indians at Roch and comparatively higher % of Asians at WUSTL.

 

hey Swimmer....which school are you from? In case you do not wish to disclose here, will you be able to PM me your email ID? ..unfortunately, I don't have enough banana points for that.... I need to confirm with UoR by 20th March and hence need to decide soon. It would be really great to talk to someone at the school.

 

I don't know if you were in the MSF at Rochester but I visited the school and there were very few Indians in that program. Also, WUSTL Corp Fin track has 15% international students only. The Qfin track is 87% international students....this is according to the WUSTL class profile stats on their website

 

UR is mostly Chinese. Internationals dominate in quant programs because Americans stop learning math past calculus. Hence why we need to import intelligence.

Go WUSTL. Like zero doubt in my mind.

 

Is it because of the MBA and undergrad rankings or any other reasons? Is the UoR program more quantitative than WUSTL corp fin?....I know WUSTL is a great program but do they have a good alumni network in NYC?

 

k...thanks.... I had emailed the WUSTL career center and they replied that St. Louis and mid west are their major employment markets. Then NY & Chicago ..... but the student has to take efforts in looking for alumni/opportunities to tap there...basically the school won't be able to help much.

 

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