Sloan v. Wharton

johnny55
Wed, 21 May 2008 03:51:19 +0000

The only reason I’m in Wharton is for the alumni network. The finance you learn at one place, is the same finance you learn at another place.
The only difference is you have more of an incentive to learn at Wharton b/c of the great professors and the competitive atmosphere where everyone is pushing everyone else to succeed.

From my experience with hedge funds and finance, it seems like the biggest need is for kids who know finance and programming. A lot of things are going quantitative, and I really believe that’s the wave of the future. Right now lots of funds are making programs based on financial indicators. But in the future there’s going to be so many quant based funds in the market, that you will soon be programming based on how other firms’ programs evaluate the market. At least it’s going to be that way from an institutional investing standpoint.

I believe Sloan would be the way to go, if your interested in combining finance and advanced mathematics/programming.

You can do this at Penn as well but you have to be extremely bright. You would have to be in the M&T program, where you graduate with degrees from Wharton and SEAS (the engineering school). M&T’s have to fufill so many credit requirements it wouldn’t be worth it to me. So I would still say go to Sloan.