Sloan v. Wharton

johnny55
Wed, 21 May 2008 15:06:47 +0000

This is purely my opinion based on the brief experience I have

In Wharton a major is 4 courses, a minor in the college or engineering is 6-8 courses, so adding on two minors (math and cse) would be difficult.

The big difference for me is that having an engineering degree and CSE as your major is much more impressive than a minor. I guess that’s why I never considered that option, but you could certainly do a minor in some quantitative area.

Re-reading your question, your main problem seems to be that finance at Wharton is not quantitative enough. Let me assure you it is, it’s all numbers.

If you interested in technology or trading, where you could really apply advanced math skills, I would still suggest Sloan though. I don’t think anyone can argue that MIT teaches the quantitative fields and CSE much better than Penn does.