MSFE CAREER INFORMATIONLocated in the financial center of the world, the ColumbiaMSFE Program provides its graduates with both a strong theoretical and apractical foundation in all aspects of financial engineering, from knowledge offinancial markets and instruments through financial modeling in a variety ofareas, programming and data analysis. The Program commences in July and is flexible, allowing students tograduate within one academic year by May, the end of the summer or December,based on their educational and career objectives. The first half of the programfocuses on core courses and fundamental skills; the second half provides inelectives in a wide variety of areas on both the buy- and sell-sides of thefinancial industry.
Columbia University is dedicated to assisting students inprofessional development, providing resources that include not only educationbut also resume and cover letter writing, developing professional appeal andinterview/networking skills.
The Columbia MSFE Program has had a good track record placing graduates in full time positions and internships. The full-time placement statistics for students who started in July 2007 (completed the Program in 2008) are listed below. The July 2008 career information is also available.
Total number of graduating students: 64 (4 students did not respond to the survey)
Students with employment*: 60
Percentage of students placed*: 100%
Range of Annual Base Salary: $65,000- $145,000
Sign-on Bonus: $5,000- $40,000
First Year-End Bonus: 10%- 150% of Base Salary ** *of respondents **historicallyCOMPANIES INCLUDE:
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank of Japan Barclays Capital BlackRock Blackstone Bloomberg BNP Paribas Chevron Columbia University (PhD program) Credit Suisse Development Bank of Singapore Goldman Sachs ING JP Morgan McKinsey & Company Moody's Morgan Stanley Murex PriceWaterhouseCoopers Societe Generale Susquehanna International Group
POSITIONS:| Analyst | Foreign Exchange Options Strategist | Asian Short & Forex Rates Trader
| Foreign Exchange Senior Analyst | Assistant Trader
| Fund Associate | | Assistant Vice President | Funds Derivatives Trading & Structuring, Analyst | Business Analyst
| Generalist Consultant | | Capital Markets Associate | Columbia Graduate School of Business PhD Candidate | Commodities Index Desk,Quantitative Associate
| Hedge Fund Analyst | Commodities Structuring
| Interest Rates Derivatives, Trader | Consultant
| Investment Strategy Analyst | | Consumer Market Research, Manager | Manager | | Corporate Development, Analyst | Marketing Associate | | Credit Analytics and Product Expert | Portfolio Analytics, Analyst | Derivatives Trading, Associate
| Principal Strategies, Analyst | | Energy Fundamental Analysis and Structuring, Analyst | Private Equity Consultant | | Equity Basket Trading, Associate | Product Specialist | Equity Derivatives Trading, Associate
| Quantitative Analyst
| Executive
| Quantitative Associate
| Exotic PNL, Analyst
| Quantitative Research, Analyst
| | Financial Consultant | Research Associate
| Financial Derivatives Software Consultant
| Risk Management, Analyst | Financial Engineer
| Risk Management, Associate | | Financial Services Consultant | Risk Management, Manager | | Fixed Income Associate | Securities Trader
| Fixed Income Fund Management, Associate
| Trader | | Fixed Income Securities Research Analyst | Trading Strategy and Performance Analysis, Analyst
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LOCATIONS:A majority of our students are placed in the New Yorkarea. However, graduates have beenplaced all over the world, including London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore andParis, and various locations in the United States (e.g. Chicago, Houston andSan Francisco).
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