<p>It was my understanding,
that mortgage back securities were the fault of ill prepared quant analysists coming from relatively new quant programs,
and that the quant field itself opens an entirely different field then one could enter with an MBA, and that an MBA alone isn’t nearly enough for what I want to enter
JHU, i think you are grossly underestimating the quant field and its importance/ progressive nature </p>
<p>and the top quant schools Berkley, Chicago, Stanford, Columbia, and Princeton are still the leaders of quantitative finance and economics</p>
<p>that being said, will the Math with specialization in econ properly prepare me for these programs? They seem to focus on a lot of math and, in most cases, programming.
Maybe math with specialization in comp sci is a better fit? But I still am incredibly interested in econ.</p>