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Advance Trading Magazine Names Carnegie Mellon Among Top 10 Quant Schools of 2012

Release Date: May 18, 2012

PITTSBURGH— Advance Trading Magazine has announced their list of elite quantitative financial engineering schools recognizing Carnegie Mellon University among the top ten for its Master in Computational Finance (MSCF) program. This selection was made by a panel of Wall Street professionals and is described in Advance Trading’s May 2012 article titled “The Top 10 Quant Schools of 2012”, which also provides a summary for each school.

The MSCF program at Carnegie Mellon is a collaborative venture among 4 schools across campus: the Tepper School of Business, the Mathematical Sciences Department in the Mellon College of Sciences, the Department of Statistics  in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Heinz College.

Additional information on the MSCF curriculum is available online.

About the Tepper School of Business - Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical-decision making. The school’s notable contributions to the intellectual community include eight Nobel laureates. The school is among those institutions with the highest rate of academic citations in the fields of finance, operations research, organizational behavior and production/operations. The academic offerings of the Tepper School include undergraduate studies in business and economics, graduate studies in business administration and financial engineering, and doctoral studies. 

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