Which of these PhD is better for financial quant industry?

[Jacob YW]

Hi everyone,

Could you please tell me how would you rank these PhD for someone looking for a future career in the financial quant industry? (assuming I have math background and decent programming skills). Thank you in advanced! Between parenthesis are the specific research groups found in each of the departments.

1) Oxford Math (Comput. and Math finance)
2) LSE Stats (Risk & Stochastics)
3) Columbia IEOR (Financial Engineering)
4) Imperial College Finance (assuming it's possible to have a co-advisor and subjects from Math finance)

 

[soarce]

Google "On becoming a quant" and have a look at those links., for example have a look at this webpage http://www.markjoshi.com/
This book can be taken as "the quant bible" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131499084/?tag=pfamazon01-20 have a look at the summary and see which PhD program covers most of those topics.

 

[heatengine516]

There is some good first-hand info in these threads.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/career-in-finance.622061/
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/a-few-questions-for-twofish-quant.354287/

 

[bluechic92]

You might also want to check out https://www.quantnet.com/resources/columbia-university-mathematics-of-finance-program.12/

there are useful information if you search through there as well. Search for each school and read the reviews.

and scour through this forum : http://www.wilmott.com/index.cfm?NoCookies=Yes&forumid=1