转—review of QF in Gatech from QN

估计每年到这个时候最让人等得发毛的就是Gatech了，不过还有2个星期，大家慢慢等，收集信息工作准备开始吧~~~虽然LZ通常是来什么再什么。
QN上2个月前更了一篇对这个program的review，还不错，转来大家看看

Master of Science Financial Engineering program with most focus on computational mathematics and options pricing.
Review 12/16/2011
Rating 9/10
What is unique about this program
It is very computationally intensive with niches in energy risk/quantitative analysis and machine learning applications. The coursework is very rigorous, and it focuses on more practical projects with an intense development of the foundations of underlying theory. Overall, the education is outstanding.
Worst things about the program
Career services for the students within the program. Although, the director helps out in this respect and does a good job with placements. They are just short staffed in this regard.
Career services
Career services is almost there for someone to recruit for the students. Students find internships and jobs either through the school’s career services or on their own. For domestic candidates, there is 100% full-time placement for the 2011 class. Overall, out of 60 students, there was about 80% placement, although that number will be larger in a few months in general.
Most students obtain jobs in their home country. For the few that receive offers in the US, they get jobs as traders at prop shops, Quants at trading firms, market risk analysts at trading firms, private equity analysts, investment banking analysts and associates, consultants, trade platform application engineers, trade clearing quants at exchanges, financial analysts at banks (25/60 get placed in the US). Overall, a successful 2011 year.
Student body
75% Asian
10% Indian
10% American
5% Other
Lacks diversity in some sense. This most likely will change soon.
This review was submitted on 7/28/2010 by a student who studied full-time in the program from 08/2008-12/2009
Can you tell us a bit about your background?
Bachelor in Construction Management and Economics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
No prior work experience. Prior internship experience include securities company, real estate management company and oil company.
Did you get admitted to other programs?
Columbia University and Illinois Institute of Technology
.--Why did you choose this program (over others, if applicable)?
The tuition and the time admit me.
What alternative sources of info you used to learn more about the program?
Online BBS in China
Tell us about the application process at this program
online submission of resume, cover letter, transcript and recommendation letters
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the accessibility of the faculty and staff?
9
Does this program offer refresher courses for incoming students? What do they offer and how much it costs?
Yes, I can’t rememeber the cost
On a scale of 0-10, how would you grade the usefulness of these refresher courses?
8
Tell us about the courses selection in this program. Any special courses you like?
Derivative Securities, Stochastic Process, Practice of QCF
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the flexibility of the curriculum?
9
Tell us about the quality of teaching
Good.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the quality of teaching?
8
Materials used in the program
Teacher’s notes, most of time.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the practicality of the curriculum?
8
Programming component of the program
One course for programming, C and Java
Projects
Computational Finance and Mathematical Finance
Career service
Average
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the career service for internship and full-time job?
7
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the value of the program for the price tag?
8
What DON’T you like about the program?
The career service is not good enough. Atlanta is not an excellent location for finance students already, so they should strengthen their career service to improve the placement of students.
Suggestions for the program to make it better
Career service and connection should get better.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade your experience in the program?
8
What are your current job status? What are you looking for? What would you prefer to work in?
Prefer to work in statistical finance area.
On a scale of 1-10, would you recommend this program to others?
8