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2019 QuantNet Ranking of Best Financial Engineering Programs
The 2019 QuantNet MFE ranking is the most authoritative and comprehensive ranking of best Financial Engineering (MFE), Mathematical Finance programs in the continental USA.
The 2019 QuantNet ranking of Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance masters programs in the US provides detailed information on placement and admission statistics from top programs the region, making it uniquely valuable to the quant finance community at large.
The 2019 QuantNet rankings are best positioned to help prospective applicants decide where to apply and enroll in those master quantitative programs.
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| Rank | Program | Total score | Peer assessment | Employment rate at graduation | Employment rate three months after graduation | Average starting base salary (excluding bonus) | Average GRE Quant of admitted FT students | Tuition | Class Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princeton University Master in Finance Princeton, NJ |
100 | 3.9 | 100% | 100% | $120,000 | 169 | $102,500 (2 years) | 25FT |
| 2 | Baruch College, City University of New York Financial Engineering New York, NY |
99 | 4.0 | 97% | 97% | $109,339 | 169.5 | $42,395 (non-resident), $28,670 (resident) | 35FT, 5PT |
| 2 | University of California, Berkeley Financial Engineering Berkeley, CA |
99 | 4.2 | 80% | 94% | $118,322 | 168 | $70,796 | 79FT |
| 4 | Carnegie Mellon University Computational Finance Pittsburgh, PA |
98 | 4.4 | 71% | 90% | $106,222 | 169 | $86,339 | 97FT |
| 4 | Columbia University Financial Engineering New York, NY |
98 | 3.9 | 83% | 100% | $104,656 | 169.3 | $72,648 | 120FT |
| 4 | New York University Mathematics in Finance New York, NY |
98 | 4.0 | 86% | 100% | $99,000 | 169 | $72,000 | 39FT, 13PT |
| 7 | Cornell University MEng, FE concentration Ithaca, NY |
90 | 3.7 | 68% | 87% | $93,000 | 168 | $78,000 | 56FT |
| 8 | Columbia University Mathematics of Finance New York, NY |
85 | 3.6 | 37% | 86% | $95,217 | 169.2 | $72,505 | 106FT, 5PT |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Finance Cambridge, MA |
84 | 3.6 | 68% | 75% | $78,098 | 167.7 | $78,312 (12 months), $105,968 (18 months) | 111FT |
| 9 | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Financial Engineering Brooklyn, NY |
84 | 3.4 | 75% | 87% | $91,000 | 169.1 | $63,403 | 110FT |
| 11 | University of California, Los Angeles Financial Engineering Los Angeles, CA |
82 | 2.3 | 46% | 85% | $99,200 | 168 | $75,816 | 84FT |
| 11 | University of Chicago Financial Mathematics Chicago, IL |
82 | 3.3 | 71% | 86% | $84,529 | 168 | $79,412 or $85,985 based on placement | 82FT, 7PT |
| 13 | Georgia Institute of Technology Quantitative and Computational Finance Atlanta, GA |
81 | 2.9 | 71% | 93% | $88,160 | 168.4 | $61,135 (non-resident), $29,989 (resident) | 53FT, 1PT |
| 14 | Boston University Mathematical Finance Boston, MA |
79 | 3.0 | 66% | 97% | $81,878 | 169 | $79,224 | 118FT |
| 15 | Fordham University Quantitative Finance New York, NY |
78 | 2.4 | 75% | 90% | $96,970 | 168 | $60,000 | 64FT |
| 16 | North Carolina State University Financial Mathematics Raleigh, NC |
76 | 2.3 | 86% | 100% | $84,893 | 168.3 | $56,974 (non-resident), $32,112 (resident) | 21FT |
| 16 | University of Washington Computational Finance & Risk Management Seattle, WA |
76 | 3.0 | 36% | 100% | $84,000 | 165 | $40,950 (42 credits), $52,650 (54 credits) | 24FT, 22PT |
| 18 | Rutgers University Quantitative Finance Newark, NJ |
75 | 2.7 | 59% | 93% | $85,800 | 168 | $61,532 (non-resident), $40,383 (resident) | 52FT |
| 19 | Illinois Institute of Technology Mathematical Finance Chicago, IL |
72 | 2.5 | 50% | 94% | $91,000 | 167.3 | $59,376 | 10FT |
| 20 | Rutgers University Mathematical Finance New Brunswick, NJ |
70 | 2.8 | 61% | 89% | $72,291 | 167.2 | $57,100 (non-resident), $33,262 (resident) | 44FT, 1PT |
| 21 | Johns Hopkins University Financial Mathematics Baltimore, MD |
69 | 2.6 | 23% | 65% | $87,450 | 168.1 | $80,610 | 46FT |
| 22 | University of Illinois Financial Engineering Urbana, IL |
67 | 2.6 | 32% | 67% | $87,500 | 167 | $74,500 | 68FT |
| 23 | University of Minnesota Financial Mathematics Minneapolis, MN |
66 | 2.8 | 58% | 71% | $75,000 | 165.2 | $40,224 (non-resident), $32,128 (resident) | 27FT, 3PT |
| 24 | Stevens Institute of Technology Financial Engineering Hoboken, NJ |
62 | 2.2 | 32% | 79% | $74,211 | 166 | $47,270 | 47FT, 7PT |
| 25 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Quantitative Finance and Risk Analytics Troy, NY |
60 | 2.1 | 32% | 50% | $89,500 | 167 | $55,440 | 70FT |
| 26 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte Mathematical Finance Charlotte, NC |
48 | 2.3 | 19% | 29% | $64,149 | 163 | $40,505 (non-resident), $20,354 (resident) | 33FT, 8PT |
| 27 | Claremont Graduate University Financial Engineering Claremont, CA |
38 | 2.2 | 11% | 11% | $62,333 | 162 | $77,600 | 14FT |
| NR | Hofstra University Quantitative Finance Hempstead, NY |
n/a | 1.9 | 13% | 13% | n/a | 160 | $45,375 | 15FT, 1PT |
| NR | Florida State University Financial Mathematics Tallahassee, FL |
n/a | 2.6 | 43% | 43% | n/a | 163 | $22,214 | 13FT, 1PT |
| NR | Stony Brook University Quantitative Finance Stony Brook, NY |
n/a | 2.3 | 24% | 53% | n/a | 167 | $41,084 | 10FT, 2PT |
| NR | University of Connecticut Applied Financial Mathematics Storrs, CT |
n/a | 2.4 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 167 | $57,183 | 21FT |
| NR | University of Dayton Financial Mathematics Dayton, OH |
n/a | 1.8 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | $32,715 | 4FT |
| NR | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mathematical Sciences Worcester, MA |
n/a | 2.2 | 93% | 100% | n/a | n/a | $45,000 | 5FT |