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Any Masters in Finance to recommend?
Any Masters in Finance to recommend?
Hi all,
I graduated 2years ago with a IT bachelors degree. I would like a change of environment and am looking to pursue a Masters in Finance. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts about this and if the financial sector does take in people without finance experience.
I would also like to hear if anyone has anything to say about jobs in the financial industry for IT personnel.
regards
I graduated 2years ago with a IT bachelors degree. I would like a change of environment and am looking to pursue a Masters in Finance. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts about this and if the financial sector does take in people without finance experience.
I would also like to hear if anyone has anything to say about jobs in the financial industry for IT personnel.
regards
Anonymous wrote:thanks savage.
btw, has anyone done the Masters in Financial Engineering at NTU? I'm assuming its a much more mathematically rigourous course compared to Applied Finance.

I don't know about the one at NTU, but I started the same course at NUS for kicks (I'm probably the only person in the course who's not interested in a finance career) more than 3 years ago when I was still in Singapore...I ended up doing the last 2 years of it overseas - didn't attend classes, submitted assignments via email/fax and flew back to take some exams. I've finished all the coursework, but haven't started the thesis yet.
It is definitely more computational finance - stuff you would use if you wanted to go into technical analysis, credit risk management, financial software, derivatives trading, forex trading etc (all on the grunt side of things, no glamour in most of the jobs available after this degree).... while the Applied Finance is more fundamental and gives you a wider range of job options in the finance industry. The lecturers are typically Singaporean, except for the odd visiting lecturers like one or two from Cornell U. The SMU lecturers are probably much more interesting in their teaching methods from what I hear.
i see most of the time people suggested a Master in Finance from NTU/NUS/SMU.
1) is there any comment on the Master of Finance from offered by RMIT at SIM?
http://www.sim.edu.sg/sge/pub/pgm/sge_p ... =29&ID=100
2) and i notice there is no MSc in this course. it is just a Master of Finance. my concern is there any difference?
1) is there any comment on the Master of Finance from offered by RMIT at SIM?
http://www.sim.edu.sg/sge/pub/pgm/sge_p ... =29&ID=100
2) and i notice there is no MSc in this course. it is just a Master of Finance. my concern is there any difference?
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my former classmate in grad school has IT background too. After getting the MSc (finance related ... risk management to be exact) he was straightaway offered credit analyst full-time position in dresdner-kleinwort, frankfurt.
another classmate who also has IT background got a business analyst internship with a financial software firm after the MSc, but later on Moody's bought the firm and my classmate had to go. now she's still looking for a new job.
conclusion is, it all varies depending on the individual. i do notice that my first classmate is a very smart guy and he also works well with others. that's probably why he was snapped up very fast by a bank in a foreign country that's undergoing recession.
another classmate who also has IT background got a business analyst internship with a financial software firm after the MSc, but later on Moody's bought the firm and my classmate had to go. now she's still looking for a new job.
conclusion is, it all varies depending on the individual. i do notice that my first classmate is a very smart guy and he also works well with others. that's probably why he was snapped up very fast by a bank in a foreign country that's undergoing recession.
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obviously im not asking the TS anything or expecting the TS to follow up on his thread
im merely asking in the same thread because it is based on similar topic
wake up guys!
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