Ross BBA Admission Acceptance

bearcats
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:36:53 +0000

“I’m sure among thousands of engineers a few would find they are interested in finance.”
I disagree. A tech job at a bank is still primarily an IT job, not a finance job, so their interest in finance is irrelevant. I would give you that the technology groups directly supporting the front office might be a somewhat financy (and that is probably reaching). But if you are just an application/solutions developer or a DBA, it is no different than working at tech roles at other F500 companies.
I do hear that quite a lot of EECS students get suckered into the notion that “woahhh I am going to work at Goldman Sachs!” and think they are going to work in high finance and make the big bucks, just to realize that they made the wrong decision the day after they start working in BO and find out that their job has not much to do with finance.

“A fair share, especially in S & T, are also very competitive for front office positions.”
What do you mean? S&T is by definition front office, so they are not “also very competitive for front office positions”. They are working in FO.