Engineering Grad School - Ja Oder Nicht Nicht

creepycoug

YellowSnow said:

creepycoug said:

The best part about advanced education in anything quant is that it gives you a leg up in the business world. Used to be the Ivy League MBAs ran the show, engineers were well paid staff, the two or three engineers who mattered were paid much more, and that was that. The guy who majored in Economis at Amherst and has a Harvard MBA ran the show and the technical people were overhead. Then the technical people started taking over the business lines and eventually started populating the C suite offices.

I'm drastically oversimplifying here, but that's been the general trend in my observation. I have a kid who is pure mathematics, who knows nothing about managing anything other than herself and no sense of capital markets or economic competition. And she has companies and consulting firms knocking on her door who would have never given me a second look with my UW Finance degree.

The engineers typically are not at her level from a purely quant. standpoint (she's in grad school for math), but they are obviously heavy on quant and, this is what I hear a lot, are strong on process, and they both translate well to running a bidness.

I doubt a UW engineering degree would take 10 years to justify economically. But I could be wrong.

I don’t understand what is happening.

Think it over hombre.