Which bachelor degree to become a quantitative trader or quantitative researcher?

Hi, 

I will finish high school soon and have been admitted at Bocconi University in Italy for mathematical and computational sciences in artificial intelligence and at Hochschule St Gallen in Switzerland for computer science. Which would you recommend to land a job as a quantitative trader or quantitative researcher at an investment bank or hedge fund?

thanks in advance for your help

Kind regards

3 Comments
 

Both very different careers with very different comp ceilings. Do you want to be a quant trader at a prop shop like citadel securities/Jane street etc/quant researcher here or a quant at a bank? Banks don't have quant traders...generally hedge funds don't either in the traditional sense, the term is pretty much coined by prop shops. 

 

Thanks for your quick answer. My dream would be a quant trader at a prop shop, if this is not possible a researcher at a bank. Which bachelor would you recommend for quant trader at a prop shop and which for a researcher at a bank?

Kind regards

 

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