密歇根大学金融工程项目情况(一)

　　密歇根大学(University of Michigan,UMich)建校于1817年，是美国著名的公立大学。下面主要为大家介绍一下密歇根大学商学院金融工程项目的详细情况，介绍人系密歇根大学金融工程项目2010级毕业生。希望可以给大家参考。

　　This review was submitted on 3/26/2010 at 4:00:11 by a student who studied full-time in the program from 7/2008-4/30/2010*

　　Can you tell us a bit about your background?

　　Work Ex: Accounting and fixed income derivatives trading desk support.

　　Educational background: Finance and computer science

　　Did you get admitted to other programs?

　　N/A

　　Why did you choose this program (over others, if applicable)?

　　I chose the Michigan program because of its flexibility, relationship with a strong MBA program, and the overall reputation of Michigan as a business school and in general.

　　Tell us about the application process at this program

　　Same as the other school’s processes except that Michigan required a 2 minute video monologue. Did not have to correspond with the administration during the application process.

　　On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the accessibility of the faculty and staff?

　　8

　　Programs like Baruch MFE, UCB MFE have rresher courses for incoming students. Does this program offer such courses? How usul was it?

　　Michigan has a fairly intensive mandatory summer program from July-August and organized in a modular format. There are no grades but participation in all modules is mandatory.

　　The program covers all fundamental topics from corporate finance to calculus to C++. Because of its broad scope, most students including myself found some parts usul and some parts not. For e.g. I had a strong finance background so the finance & econ segments were useless to me, whereas the I was very happy to have the calculus, probability and stats because my math background was relatively weak; most students had strong math backgrounds and so many felt the other way around. Overall my opinion of the program was positive for these reasons: gets you back into academic mode if you’ve been away from academics for a while, and it gives you the chance and time to brush up on areas of weakness ahead of some very demanding semesters.

　　On a scale of 0-10, how would you grade the usulness of these rresher courses?