The 2024 QuantNet ranking of Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance masters programs in the US provides detailed information on placement and admission statistics from top programs in the country, making it uniquely valuable to the quant finance community at large.
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| Rank | Program | Total score | Peer score | Employment Rate at Graduation | Employment Rate 3-Months after Graduation | Employment Rate 3-Months after Graduation (US only) | Average starting base salary plus sign-on bonus (US only)* | Tuition | Cohort Size |
| 1 | Baruch College, City University of New York New York, NY Financial Engineering | 100 | 4.3 | 100% | 100% | 80% | $220,500 | $42,395 (non-resident) $28,670 (resident) | 24 FT, 4 PT |
| 2 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ Master in Finance | 97 | 4.0 | 100% | 100% | 76% | $240,611 | $125,720 (two-year program) | 37 FT |
| 3 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA/New York, NY Computational Finance | 95 | 4.3 | 92% | 97% | 97% | $160,336 | $97,061 | 95 FT |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Financial Engineering | 91 | 3.9 | 84% | 96% | 86% | $173,758 | $80,486 | 76 FT, 11 PT |
| 5 | Columbia University New York, NY Financial Engineering | 88 | 3.6 | 63% | 100% | 98% | $154,175 | $88,632 | 106 FT |
| 6 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL Financial Mathematics | 85 | 3.6 | 90% | 98% | 81% | $143,216 | $90,013 | 127 FT, 6 PT |
| 7 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY MEng, FE concentration | 83 | 3.4 | 75% | 95% | 81% | $144,433 | $97,806 | 53 FT |
| 7 | New York University New York, NY Mathematics in Finance | 83 | 3.7 | 80% | 97% | 97% | $142,252 | $75,000 | 24 FT, 4 PT |
| 9 | Columbia University New York, NY Mathematics of Finance | 82 | 3.3 | 76% | 88% | 55% | $123,894 | $94,850 (non-residents), $94,550 (residents) | 105 FT, 3 PT |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Master of Finance | 82 | 3.1 | 82% | 98% | 53% | $140,123 | $121,009 | 127 FT |
| 11 | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Brooklyn, NY Financial Engineering | 77 | 3.1 | 71% | 91% | 78% | $114,967 | $78,433 | 146 FT, 1 PT |
| 12 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Quantitative and Computational Finance | 76 | 2.9 | 91% | 97% | 97% | $131,490 | $60,228 (non-resident) $28,638 (resident) | 71 FT |
| 12 | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC Financial Mathematics | 76 | 2.6 | 89% | 100% | 100% | $116,882 | $63,023 (non-resident), $33,062 (resident) | 33 FT |
| 12 | University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Financial Engineering | 76 | 3.4 | 89% | 94% | 79% | $125,727 | $89,539 | 94 FT |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Financial Mathematics | 66 | 2.4 | 61% | 100% | 78% | $110,874 | $95,203 | 49 FT |
| 15 | University of Washington Seattle, WA Computational Finance & Risk Management | 66 | 2.8 | 74% | 100% | 62% | $105,261 | $47,570 | 52 FT |
| 17 | Rutgers University Newark, NJ Quantitative Finance | 62 | 2.7 | 57% | 89% | 64% | $106,520 | $76,224 (non-resident) $52,700 (resident) | 55 FT |
| 18 | University of Illinois Urbana, IL Financial Engineering | 58 | 2.7 | 54% | 92% | 92% | 106,150 | $78,837 (non-resident), $59,562 (resident) | 27 FT |
| 19 | Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ Financial Engineering | 57 | 2.4 | 45% | 98% | 98% | $114,483 | $54,332 | 16 FT, 4 PT |
| 20 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Financial Mathematics | 55 | 2.2 | 82% | 91% | 91% | $122,040 | $49,420 (non-resident), $39,480 (resident) | 18 FT, 1 PT |
| 21 | Boston University Boston, MA Mathematical Finance | 49 | 2.7 | 54% | 78% | 78% | $109,098 | $97,226 | 106 FT |
| 21 | Fordham University New York, NY Quantitative Finance | 49 | 2.2 | 35% | 65% | 50% | $101,607 | $89,309 | 23 FT |
| 21 | University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA Master in Finance | 49 | 2.1 | 24% | 57% | 33% | $81,935 | $76,128 | 146 FT |
*Percentage of graduates seeking employment who were employed in the US 3 months after graduation.
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