How does Princetons MFin compare to an MBA?
Unlike an MBA program, we teach only finance and the related prerequisite disciplines (such as statistics, accounting, etc.). This allows us to do so at a much deeper level than in an MBA, and to incorporate all the interdisciplinary aspects of modern finance, such as financial mathematics, financial econometrics, computational finance, behavioral finance, corporate finance, etc. You should be aware that our courses are more demanding, and more quantitative, than a typical MBA course. In general, MFin graduates will not be as attractive as MBAs in the corporate finance and M&A areas where the non-finance parts of an MBA curriculum are useful. In fact, if that is where you really want to work, you would probably be better off following an MBA course of study. However, if you are interested in other areas encompassed within the modern investment bank such as quantitative asset management, risk management, derivatives pricing and trading, fixed income analytics and other areas where a qua
