Princeton University

• The MFin Program: What Is It?
• Recruiting Logistics
• Recruiting Calendar 2013-2014
• Employers of Recent Graduates
• Students Seeking Internships and Fulltime Positions
• Contact Information

Princeton University's MFin program enrolls approximately 25 students each year, out of approximately 700 applicants. The small size of the program and great selectivity lead to high academic standards, an intense relationship for students with the faculty and with each other, both of which enhance our students' academic experience and lead to the exceptional job placement record achieved by our students.

In 2012, the program received 691 applications and admitted 28 students. In order to provide the highest level of career placement services in a difficult economy, we continue to keep our incoming 2013 class slightly smaller than in recent years.

Our students have achieved outstanding academic records and they possess excellent leadership and communication skills. They arrive from a multiplicity of nations worldwide. Some have a depth of professional experience; all have superior educational achievements and manifest a deep interest in finance.

See BCF in the News for recent articles that focus on our program.

Unlike an MBA program which focuses on a general business education and will include courses on strategy, management and marketing in addition to finance, our program teaches only finance. This allows us to do so at a much deeper level contrasted with an MBA and enables us to incorporate all the interdisciplinary aspects of modern finance, such as financial mathematics, financial econometrics, computational finance, behavioral finance and corporate finance. Our courses are more quantitative than a typical MBA course and some may find them more demanding. The MBA is still the degree of choice for the corporate finance divisions and mergers and acquisitions areas of the modern investment bank, but the MFin degree is becoming the preferred degree in the trading and asset management areas of the I-bank. These would be areas such as quantitative asset management, risk management, derivatives pricing and trading, fixed income analytics and other areas where the pricing and analysis of complex securities require significant quantitative input. Also, the world of finance is broader than the traditional investment banking business, with opportunities in insurance, commercial banking, commodities and energy trading and risk management for traditional industrial companies, to mention just a few areas where our MFin program is becoming well known due to the quality of the students and the learning experience provided by Princeton's MFin program.

Unlike mathematical or computational finance Master programs, we teach all of finance. This means, for instance, that we teach accounting, corporate finance, behavioral finance, etc., in addition to stochastic calculus, derivatives pricing, financial engineering, etc. We believe that our broad multidisciplinary approach to finance is an important advantage of our program, and that our placement record reflects it.

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If you have an opportunity that you would like to publicize with our MFin students, please contact us. We will work with you to produce a top quality group of applicants. What works best is an email (see contact information) with an attachment specifying:

• Position title and brief description of job attributes and desired skill set
• Position start date (please note that, except in unusual circumstances, our program graduates students in early June; should you require a start date that is nonconforming with graduation, you should contact us to see what sort of arrangements can be made)
• Preferred method of receiving applications

If you are interested in reaching out to a larger and broader group of undergraduate and graduate students, we'd also recommend that you post positions through Princeton's Career Services team.

Our office can help you schedule an on campus interview at our facilities which is an efficient way to meet several of our students. Alternatively, if you prefer, you can combine your recruiting of undergrads and graduate students and proceed through the Office of Career Services using the Tiger Tracks system. Either way, be sure to contact us regarding your dates and times so that we can publicize them with our MFin students.

In view of Princeton's proximity to the major East Coast financial centers, it is very feasible for our students to travel to meet with you in your offices. Contact us so that we can get you a list of qualified applicants and help you coordinate dates and times with our students' class schedules. Students frequently have Fridays open with no lecture classes so this can be an excellent day to schedule them for a visit to your offices.

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In general, most company presentations and interviews for permanent positions are carried out during this period. Most offers for permanent positions are made prior to Thanksgiving and resolved prior to Winter recess. For access to all academic calendars please click here and for access to the Career Services On Campus Recruiting calendar click here

September 11. Classes commence
September 20. Career Fair sponsored by Office of Career Services
October 21–25. Mid-term exam week
October 26. Fall recess commences
November 4. Classes resume
November 26–December 1. Thanksgiving holiday
December 13. Winter recess begins

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The Bendheim Center provides extensive career assistance to students, including help with internships and job placement, through its own staff and our placement record has been excellent.

To review the firms that have hired students in the past few years for internships and fulltime, please click here

The following firms have employed at least one of our students in a permanent (for graduating students) or internship position (in the Summer for two-year students). In addition, several of our students have gone on to PhD programs at Oxford, London Business School, Wharton, Northwestern and Princeton.

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Please note: The photographs and CVs contained in this section are for the reference of recruiters working with Princeton University; permission is not granted for any other use.

Summer 2013

Dhruv Agrawal
Kapil Agrawal
Salman Baig
Jiawei Chen
Yijie (Sissi) Chen
Wenjun Er*
Jeremie Fischer
Samy Jazaerli
Yoke Suen Kan*
Jungsoo Kim
Michael Kraus
Alp Kutlualp
Van Le
Jonathan Lin*
Oriol Lozano Carbasse
Chuwei (Amanda) Mao
Christian Massion
Eugene Nagirner
William Qian
Gabriela Rochlin
Chihiro Seko
Joseph Shippee
Xavier Sisso
Marc-Herve Tchuente
Jean-Marin Ursch
Fanrong (Daisy) Wang
Jiayang (Jason) Wang
Qiong (Franklin) Wang
Shuting (Grace) Wei*
Christopher Whitbeck
Lin Xu
* denotes returning to home government after graduation
 

Please email Wendell Collins at wendellc@princeton.edu for access to student resumes.

Summer 2013

Santiago Barona
Andrew Chan
Joonhahn Cho
Carlo Didonna
Laurent Dupras-Boileau
Xixin Fan
Arianne Flemming
Mauricio Gonzalez
Holly Goodman
Kevin Hassani
Jun Wei Ho
Mengyi (Melly) Jiang
Kamal Katika
Tao (Ivy)Li
Sarah Nagy
Brandon Richardson
Tapani Salonen
Yeong Zann (Ian) Seow
Elaine Song
Mark TenPas
Taylor Termes
Hoi Lun (Alan) Wang
Tong Wu
Xiaoqing (Sara) Yuan
Igor Zabukovec
 

Please email Wendell Collins at wendellc@princeton.edu for access to student resumes.

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For additional information about recruiting MFin students or for assistance with any aspect of the recruiting process, please contact:

Wendell Collins - wendellc@princeton.edu

"The Bendheim Center offers a wide range of finance courses that allow graduates to choose careers in both academia and the financial industry. The small class size and an exclusive alumni network make the program unique. Wherever you want to take your career, Princeton opens the doors across the globe."

-- Duygu Gozeler, MFin '07; Deutsche Bank Vice President, GFFX Structuring