Wednesday, August 21, 2024

So You Want To Be A Quant: The Best Schools For Your Financial Engineering Degree

In a July 2014 post (reprised a couple days ago) I referred to Dogbert:  

As Carnegie Mellon Financial Engineering prof. Dogbert explains, we are dealing with aggregates here:...

Not just because Carnegie Mellon has a first tier Financial Engineering program, which it does, see QuantNet's rankings below, but also because it runs the premier Machine Learning/AI program in the country, for those who want to pursue a double Masters and/or a Doctorate in ML.

2024 QuantNet Ranking of Best Financial Engineering Programs

1.Baruch College
New York, NY 10010
Master in Financial Engineering

2. Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Master in Finance

3. Carnegie Mellon University
New York, NY 10005 | Pittsburgh, PA 15213
MS in Computational Finance

....MUCH MORE

During the twenty-teens Carnegie-Mellon was usually found at the top of the leader board until Baruch College at CUNY slipped past them in 2017.  

Regarding AI/ML here's the school bragging a little bit:

Globally Known in AI and Machine Learning

CS Rankings
AI: 1
Machine learning and data mining: 1

CS Rankings ranks Carnegie Mellon University as the top university for machine learning and AI programs.

Towards AI
Ph.D. Program:
AI: 1
Machine learning and data mining: 1


Master's Program:
AI: 1
Machine learning and data mining: 1

Towards AI ranks the Machine Learning Department as the best educational research institution for machine learning graduate programs, both for Ph.D. and master's in machine learning.
 
U.S. News Report
AI: 1
U.S. News Report ranks Carnegie Mellon University as the best institution for artificial intelligence (AI) programs.

Analytics India Magazine
Master's Program:
Machine learning and data mining: 1
AIM ranks the Machine Learning Department as the best institution for machine learning master's programs.

If interested, here's a 2016 post on the ML concentration:

Interview: Manuela Veloso Head of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University

Here's one of Carnegie-Mellon's graduates:

Sensei Kai-Fu Lee on AI in 2041