New York - Quantnet today released the 2011 edition of its MFE rankings which rank the top masters programs in Financial Engineering, Mathematical Finance, Quantitative Finance in North America. The 2011 Quantnet ranking is the most comprehensive ranking of such programs to date.

The 2011 ranking surveyed programs on admission, placement, career services. 86% of those surveyed provided the neccessary information for the ranking. Hiring managers and recruiters from many financial institutions were also surveyed on their records of hiring graduates from programs in the ranking.

The CMU’s Computational Finance program is ranked #1 in the latest ranking, followed by Princeton’s Master in Finance and Columbia’s Financial Engineering program. The full ranking of 22 programs can be found here.

Founded in 2003, Quantnet.com has grown to be the most comprehensive research tool online for graduate students considering education and career opportunities in the field of quantitative finance.