敲黑板，哥大到底有几个金融专业？-新东方前途出国

哥伦比亚大学的金融工程(Financial Engineering)项目位于工业工程与运筹学系(Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research)下面，项目链接如下：

http://ieor.columbia.edu/ms-financial-engineering

该项目教学目标是结合金融理论、数学方法以及编程手段，来实现金融领域的量化交易。项目培养的学生多进入证券业、银行业、财富管理以及咨询行业。

项目只有秋季招生，网申时需要提供三封推荐信，GRE成绩，个人陈述以及简历，申请费为85美金，另外国际学生还需要提供托福或雅思成绩。值得注意的是，这个项目不可以用GMAT申请。

项目二：金融数学

金融数学(Mathematics of Finance)项目位于数学系(Department of Math)下面，项目链接如下：

http://www.math.columbia.edu/mafn/

跟之前提到的金融工程相比，金融数学项目更倾向于讲金融进行量化理论研究，课程覆盖统计学、随机过程、数值分析方法以及金融知识。申请者学术背景多为统计、数学、经济学以及计算机，大多数都有金融行业从业经历。项目秋季和春季都招收学生，很多知名金融机构诸如高盛、摩根大通、摩根士丹利、瑞士信贷以及瑞银等都会招收该项目毕业生。

申请者同样需要提供三封推荐信，GRE/GMAT成绩都可以用来申请，但是学校更倾向于申请者用GRE成绩，对于GRE的数学成绩，44%的学生为170分，64%的学生为167分以上，82%的学生为166以上，不需要Sub考试。同样国际学生需要提供托福或雅思成绩。学术SOP的题目如下：

All applicants must submit a statement of academic purpose. Please compose a succinct statement of approximately 1,000 words describing your past academic work and preparation related to your intended field of study, your plans for graduate study at Columbia, and your subsequent career objectives. If you intend to transfer from a graduate program at another university, please explain why you wish to do so. If you are not currently attending an academic program, please describe your activities since you were last enrolled. Additionally, if there has been a break in your educational experience, please include a brief explanation.

项目三：金融经济学

金融经济学(Finance Economics)项目，在哥伦比亚大学的商学院(School of Business)下面，项目为两年，链接如下：

http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs-admissions/master-of-science/financial-economics

项目倾向于培养学生进入投资银行、商业银行、共同基金以及对冲基金。申请者需要提供GMAT/GRE成绩，两封推荐信，国际学生需要提供托福或雅思成绩，除此之外还有两篇Essay，题目如下：

Essay 1

In 250–500 words please describe your educational goals and those academic and/or professional achievements which have contributed most to your development.

Essay 2

In 250–500 words please indicate your expected career track (examples include, but are not limited to, consulting, banking, asset management, research and modeling, risk management, etc.) and describe how the Master of Science in Financial Economics will help you attain your career goals.  Please be specific.

其他相关项目：

管理科学与工程硕士(IEOR下)

运筹学硕士(IEOR下)

统计硕士(统计系下)

MBA(商学院下)