How would people rank the following programs?1. PhD Computational Finance, University of Essex2. PhD Economics, Queen Mary University of London3. PhD Finance , University of Sydneyfor someone who is interested in getting into program trading afterwards?

QuoteOriginally posted by: twofish In the case of MBA's, GPA and school are much more important because there is little else to make a hiring judgment on. Work experience is the only real differentiator, but that correlates highly with the quality of the careers services at the school. Note quite true. MBA grades are unimportant. In fact, some of the top schools do not even *permit* an MBA to disclose her grades or GPA even if she wants to (so that those with low grades are not disadvantaged). For MBAs, the main differentiators are (1) MBA school prestige; (2) prior work experience and training before MBA school; and (3) performance during interviews and socializers.

Quote________________________________________________________How would people rank the following programs?1. PhD Computational Finance, University of Essex2. PhD Economics, Queen Mary University of London3. PhD Finance , University of Sydney_________________________________________________________I am Also Interested to Know , especially for PhD in Computational Finance, University of Essex ?

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1. PhD Computational Finance, University of Essex // Better than you might think though Essex is not seen as a top university at all.2. PhD Economics, Queen Mary University of London // QMC graduates average the 4th highest incomes of anywhere in the UK....3. PhD Finance , University of Sydney // Good reputation, if it were anywhere near a financial centre, would be a great choice.

QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFC1. PhD Computational Finance, University of Essex // Better than you might think though Essex is not seen as a top university at all.2. PhD Economics, Queen Mary University of London // QMC graduates average the 4th highest incomes of anywhere in the UK....3. PhD Finance , University of Sydney // Good reputation, if it were anywhere near a financial centre, would be a great choice.Thanks DCFC. At Essex you can take courses on DSP and machine learning/data mining. I wonder as these course are offered by the CS dept and not an Elec Eng dept they might be very interesting but too wishy washy to equip with the quantitative skills needed for practical usage in industry.QMC graduates average the 4th highest incomes of anywhere in the UK.... - This would be for all subjects and all professions right? I presume thats not the case when looking specifically at finance esp quant finance.Also regarding your point about PhD Finance at Sydney, isnt Sydney Austraila's largest financial centre -or did you mean it would be a good choice if there was an industry component linked with the programme?

Definitely agree that PhD in computational finance from Essex is suprisingly good as a course - but of course it is really not regarded as a brilliant university - one thing that I would say is that if you want a quant job then a PhD anywhere coupled with the right headhunter works pretty well as long as you are good - quant interviews as opposed to a lot of trading interviews etc are a lot more about wether you can actually do stuff rather than where you went to university