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He said that there was a pull for students to go to wall street because there is a strong demand for engineering students to work in finances. This is why Columbia has such a strong financial engineering department and why it sends so many students to those types of jobs. The other departments, however, do not train their students to work better with finances.
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I don't mean to accuse, but for the people saying that Columbia SEAS students are less likely to have actual engineering jobs, have you taken classes at both schools to compare and spoken personally with the chairmen of the departments and professors to really see whether or not they teach for engineering or finances?
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I really don't understand what you're trying to say here. Really the only dept that actually trains one for finance is financial engineering but even that doesn't train one to be a junior analyst on wall st. ABET exists so that all engineers have the same skills (proficiency in those skills is a person by person basis of course tho) so saying that a department trains one for financing over engineering is ridiculous.
Someone posted, either in this thread or in a different one, about how SEAS kids go to where they think they will be paid for their time the best and i'd say that's a fair assumption.