soccer player

What type of job opportunities does a systems engineer major on the financial systems track receive? Job with consulting firm? Investment banking? any input will be helpful..... good MBA opportunities down the road?

BornInTheSky

I'm a current third year in the Systems Engineering program. I'm a human factors student myself, but from what I have seen from my classmates, you have the right idea.

The big consulting companies (Deloitte, Accenture, Booz Allen, ect) seem to target systems engineers pretty aggressively. Many of my classmates have also received positions on Wall Street in companies like Citi.

You have a lot of opportunities in the field because you will learn how to work with data very well.

cavalier302

Systems engineering is one of the more employable majors at any university. It gives opportunities in consulting, finance and major technology firms like Lockheed and Boeing. Getting into an MBA program has way more to do with the quality of your work experience and your GMAT score than what your undergraduate major was.

soccer player

thanks for the help.... do you have any idea about internship opportunities for finance students? i understand internships will be down because of the economy

On another note, have you been happy with the systems program? professors, advisors?

barboza

I'm just curious.. what's the difference between human factors and risk analysis? What respective career paths do both concentrations lead to?

ash_godinho

Also, what type of jobs do Systems majors get? Does it relate to the major?

soccer player

any responses?

BornInTheSky

Sorry, I've been soul crushingly busy lately.

I cant really say a whole lot about internship opportunities for Systems students with a finance application sequence. I quick search on any one of the job listings sites will tell you more than I can. What I can tell you is that there are a whole lot of jobs for Systems engineers. I talked to a recruiter once who had no idea what Systems engineers do, but his company told him to talk to as many as he could. If your looking for a finance job, it seems logical to me that Systems would set you apart from others. In particular, you will learn a ton of probability and statistics, be able to construct distribution models, run Monte Carlo simulations, solve linear programs, work effectively in teams, and make convincing consulting presentations.

I have been decently happy with the program and staff. The classes are all across the board, so you will like some and dislike others. I've taken classes on simulation, forecasting, human/computer interaction, cognition, databases, coding, consulting work, and shortest path models. You will not enjoy all of them most likely. But systems gives you a decent amount of flexibility with a couple of unrestricted electives and the sequence.

Professors also vary a lot. I haven't had one yet that I really liked and who made me happy to be a systems engineer. But I suppose that is particularly hard when the professor is an professional engineer and the class is on density functions. There are some pretty good professors though. I guess what is more important is that I have not (at least in the systems department) had any awful professors.

I'm not to sure about risk analysis, but human factors at UVa is much more concerned with how people work with machines and in systems. It seems to combine a little bit of ergonomics, physiology, cognition, and engineering to work on applications such as interface design and usability testing.

soccer player

thanks a lot