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RugbyEng said:What's wrong with a BS in Engineering and an MFE? The MFE will get your foot in the door and the BS is marketable if the economy turns sour. Just make sure you know your C++ and Matlab. Or you could go BS in Stat or Applied Math.
The thing is that with some of these kinds of jobs, your job is to 'figure out' the rules instead of applying them.
As twofish-quant has pointed out in other threads, the rules in finance change every couple of months at times while the laws of physics don't: which is why for some roles PhD candidates are preferred since what they do is akin to what needs to be done in the job.
Also for programming, it takes a long time to be able to have both the breadth and specificity required in doing things effeciently. I used to be a programmer so I have had this experience directly and if you haven't had a lot of experience on real projects then people will see through you when it comes interview time should you get that far.
I feel sorry for twofish having to say the same thing over and over: maybe he should make a stickied post for this kind of thing so he doesn't have to spend time saying the same thing over and over again