I wanted to know if Columbia's Engineering programme is considered a target school by employers such as the regular Columbia college econ grad? As I am interested in engineering but I am also considering a career in finance and banking.
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Both are targets
so if I graduate with an electrical engineering degree I still have a good chance in investment banking.
As long as you maintain a good GPA you can get into investment banking from basically any major at Columbia. Your main concern is if you can maintain a 3.5+ in electrical engineering, which I consider to be the toughest engineering major.
what about financial engineering?
Depends on what you want to do. If you want a more quantitatively driven role in finance, then it's a good option. Otherwise, I don't think it's really necessary.
http://ieor.columbia.edu/bs-operations-researchfinancial-engineering
"BS in Operations Research:Financial Engineering Financial Engineering is a multidisciplinary field integrating financial theory with economics, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and practice of programming. The Financial Engineering concentration within the Operations Research program is designed to provide training in the application of engineering methodologies and quantitative methods to finance. Students in this concentration are prepared to enter careers in securities, banking, financial management, consulting industries, quantitative roles in corporate treasury, and finance departments of general manufacturing and service firms."
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