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Review of Georgia Tech QCF program

Last updated on 07.28.2010 Tweet

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This review was submitted on 7/28/2010 at 11:20:25AM by a student who studied full-time in the program from
08/2008-12/2009

Can you tell us a bit about your background?

Bachelor in Construction Management and Economics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
No prior work experience. Prior internship experience include securities company, real estate management
company and oil company.

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Did you get admitted to other programs?

Columbia University and Illinois Institute of Technology

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

The tuition and the time admit me.

What alternative sources of info you used to learn more about the program?
Online BBS in China

Tell us about the application process at this program

online submission of resume, cover letter, transcript and recommendation letters

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the accessibility of the faculty and staff?
9

Does this program offer refresher courses for incoming students? What do they offer and how much it
costs?
Yes, I can’t rememeber the cost

On a scale of 0-10, how would you grade the usefulness of these refresher courses?
8

Tell us about the courses selection in this program. Any special courses you like?
Derivative Securities, Stochastic Process, Practice of QCF

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the flexibility of the curriculum?
9

Tell us about the quality of teaching

Good.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the quality of teaching?

8

Materials used in the program

Teacher’s notes, most of time.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the practicality of the curriculum?
8

Programming component of the program

One course for programming, C and Java

Projects
Computational Finance and Mathematical Finance

Career service
Average

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the career service for internship and full-time job?
7

What do you like about the program?

Good

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade the value of the program for the price tag?
8

What DON’T you like about the program?

The career service is not good enough. Atlanta is not an excellent location for finance students already, so they
should strengthen their career service to improve the placement of students.

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Suggestions for the program to make it better

Career service and connection should get better.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade your experience in the program?
8

What are your current job status? What are you looking for? What would you prefer to work in?
Prefer to work in statistical finance area.

On a scale of 1-10, would you recommend this program to others?

8

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