November 19th, 2008, 4:55 pm
Thank you Dominic, now I feel a little bit more safe. The administration at NUI Galway (the place which offer the financial math and economics program) seems to be a total mess. I tried to find out the admission requirements in Math for Swedish students, and well... first I called the admission office, who told me to call the International Student office, who told me to call the CAO (a government authority who oversees the application process for undergrads), who told me to call the Economics department at NUI Galway, who told me to call the professor at the program, who didn't answer, so I sent him an email, which he did not respond to. Two months later, I sent him another email, which he did answer. He began by saying that he was sorry he hadn't answered my last email earlier... he had forwarded it to the Mathematics Department, who appearntly didn't got back to me! At University of Limerick, I got pretty straight answers directly from the professor (who also knows how to answer the phone). The class is smaller (10 students), and I find the courses interesting - and they give me a broader education than a simple Financial math degree would. Just one question... what does "itas" mean? I haven't heard that word before, but I assume what you're trying to say is that a broad education is good to have, since the market can shift. Traders, portfolio managers and strategists seems to earn pretty well (the two first of them got, according to someone in this thread, 200k + 200 % bonus, which would mean 600k totally - at a junior level), so maybe I should try become something like that Economists, or people with some education in economics, could work as strategists if I got it right./John