When would getting an MS in finance be worthwhile?

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Never. Unless you pick proper finance position. My colleague is finance grad and doing project management. Why carry extra debt if you know you are not gonna work with it. Understand your future prospects and then invest. If you are the finance guy, make sure you go for it and stick to it!

if you want to work for a hedge fund or market maker some of the material and exposure might be relevant. but if you want one of those jobs you are probably better off doing financial engineering.

maybe working in portfolio management for a pension fund?

I ended up getting one after undergrad. Didn’t major in business / finance but decided that was the career path I wanted to take.

It helped me get a foot in the door when applying for roles I otherwise would not have got an interview for.

I came in as an analyst. I wouldn’t expect it to provide an automatic potential promotion to a certain level like an MBA doe s

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