<p>OP: If you look at what recent Stats AMs are doing, it looks actually more like the sort of thing you want than most of your other half-baked ideas. [Harvard</a> Statistics AM Alumni](<a href=“http://www.stat.harvard.edu/alumni/AM.html]Harvard”>http://www.stat.harvard.edu/alumni/AM.html)</p>
<p>It’s not clear to me at all that most of these students weren’t terminal masters students coming from outside Harvard, vs. undergraduate joint degree candidates and Harvard PhD candidates in related fields. Some of them have gone on to PhD programs or are pursuing other graduate degrees, but an awful lot of them are working for large, well-known finance industry firms.</p>
<p>The program is designed to be a one-year, two-semester program, assuming you are doing it full time and have adequate math preparation going in.</p>