Which schools have Mathematical Finance Majors

monydad
Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:10:15 +0000

sac: He’s an upperclassman, with some kind of major oriented towards an eventual business career.

The hedge fund likely wants some accounting background because their internship opportunity involves inputting financial data into spreadsheets.

Personally I don’t regard taking an accounting course as unduly specializing, or as a big infringement on one’s liberal arts education. Actually I think a liberal education should include some exposure to business as one aspect. (maybe that’s why no liberal arts college is soliciting my input on curricular development…). An accounting course is good to have, for a lot of people not just finance specialists, IMO.

It is possible that the phenomenon you’re describing is happening in the area of financial engineering, but the accounting course requirement of this one fund for a particular temp job is not a really strong proof of any such trend.

As for finance generally, at the upper levels I doubt that the requirements have changed very much, though that’s certainly possible.
IMO.