| Rank | Program | Total score | Peer assessment | Employment rate at graduation | Employment rate three months after graduation | Average starting base salary plus sign-on bonus | Average GRE Quant of admitted FT students | Tuition | Cohort Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baruch College, City University of New York Financial Engineering New York, NY |
100 | 4.0 | 93% | 100% | $147,028 | 169.8 | 42,395 (non-resident)28,670 (resident) | 26 FT, 3 PT |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon University Computational Finance Pittsburgh, PA |
95 | 4.1 | 77% | 95% | $127,546 | 169 | $89,151 | 89 FT |
| 3 | Princeton University Master in Finance Princeton, NJ |
94 | 3.8 | 92% | 100% | $126,496 | 168 | $112,940 (2 years) | 20 FT |
| 4 | Columbia University Financial Engineering New York, NY |
91 | 3.8 | 69% | 98% | $120,248 | 169 | $79,056 | 85 FT |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley Financial Engineering Berkeley, CA |
88 | 4.1 | 70% | 92% | $124,401 | 169 | $75,108 | 96 FT |
| 6 | Cornell University MEng, FE concentration Ithaca, NY |
85 | 3.6 | 58% | 90% | $120,960 | 168 | $87,879 | 27 FT |
| 7 | Columbia University Mathematics of Finance New York, NY |
84 | 3.5 | 72% | 96% | $100,012 | 169.5 | $79,049 | 52 FT, 1 PT |
| 8 | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Financial Engineering Brooklyn, NY |
83 | 3.3 | 74% | 86% | $95,287 | 169 | $70,000 (2 years) | 96 FT, 4 PT |
| 8 | University of Chicago Financial Mathematics Chicago, IL |
83 | 3.4 | 81% | 93% | $105,499 | 168.3 | $84,625 | 69 FT, 6 PT |
| 10 | Georgia Institute of Technology Quantitative and Computational Finance Atlanta, GA |
80 | 2.8 | 68% | 96% | $102,430 | 168.8 | 61,260 (non-resident)29,670 (resident) | 34 FT |
| 11 | New York University Mathematics in Finance New York, NY |
77 | 3.8 | 24% | 48% | $104,450 | 169 | $74,450 | 27 FT, 5 PT |
| 11 | North Carolina State University Financial Mathematics Raleigh, NC |
77 | 2.5 | 68% | 100% | $94,910 | 168 | 58,497 (non-resident)32,508 (resident) | 17 FT |
| 13 | Boston University Mathematical Finance Boston, MA |
74 | 3.0 | 60% | 94% | $90,569 | 168.6 | $85,281 | 101 FT |
| 14 | Rutgers University Quantitative Finance Newark, NJ |
71 | 2.6 | 61% | 93% | $90,468 | 168 | 67,587 (non-resident)48,825 (resident) | 31 FT, 1 PT |
| 14 | University of Washington Computational Finance & Risk Management Seattle, WA |
71 | 3.0 | 74% | 100% | $73,845 | 167 | $46,500 | 38 FT, 12 PT |
| 16 | University of California, Los Angeles Financial Engineering Los Angeles, CA |
68 | 3.2 | 39% | 74% | $103,250 | 166 | $78,470 | 48 FT |
| 17 | Fordham University Quantitative Finance New York, NY |
64 | 2.4 | 43% | 66% | $91,778 | 168 | $75,690 | 31 FT |
| 18 | Stony Brook University Quantitative Finance Stony Brook, NY |
61 | 2.4 | 36% | 100% | $90,000 | 162 | 43,790 (non-resident)26,105 (resident) | 23 FT, 2 PT |
| 19 | University of Illinois Financial Engineering Urbana, IL |
60 | 2.6 | 5% | 66% | $102,600 | 167 | $77,880 | 22 FT |
| 20 | Stevens Institute of Technology Financial Engineering Hoboken, NJ |
59 | 2.3 | 50% | 82% | $90,197 | 162 | $47,530 | 30 FT, 7 PT |
| 21 | University of Minnesota Financial Mathematics Minneapolis, MN |
58 | 2.7 | 23% | 62% | $76,500 | 166.6 | 43,995 (non-resident),35,140 (resident) | 19 FT |
| 22 | Claremont Graduate University Financial Engineering Claremont, CA |
53 | 2.1 | 38% | 85% | $94,905 | 165 | $80,310 | 6 FT |
| 23 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Quantitative Finance and Risk Analytics Troy, NY |
42 | 2.1 | 8% | 18% | $74,600 | 166 | $58,290 | 13 FT |