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?

 

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.

 

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]
 

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.

[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]
 

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