What type of job availability for Stats or Physics PhDs?

mathboy98
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:47:38 +0000

Good question - one would expect the latter, but perhaps the number of Physics PhDs doing physics is that incredibly low that the question even arises. Bottom line is that if you want to be a quant, you can definitely do it with either background, but it is probably a bad idea to pursue a physics PhD mainly with the aim of being a quant.