<p>transferapp07, so spooky your post: just an hour ago I was surfing the websites of all the Ivies and could not find financial engr except at Columbia, Princeton (a concentration really) and Wharton. It didn’t occur to me to look under stats.</p>
<p>Please help with some thoughts: my S is a freshman at Columbia SEAS, went in to study mech engr now is interested in financial engr. I am not so pleased. First of all, I look dimly at endeavours that are done for making money. But it is his life I guess. Second, I would deeply love for him to get a liberal education in the sense of an applied math or applied physics major. He is willing to do just that but wants to do minor in econ or finance. So, will applied math or applied physics work out for hedge funds etc? From your posts I gather the answer is yes. Will the financial engr kids have any advantage? My belief is math will be very versatile, can do PhD in game theory, econ, can go into artificial intelligence, cryptography, etc etc if one is burned out in finance. Your comments, please.</p>