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Quantnet provided a rankings of MS in Financial Engineering programs, which can be used for reference. More generally, this really depends on what area of quantitative finance that interests you:
If you want to work in developing valuation and pricing models, than one of these programs will be very useful. If you want to work in quantitative trading, it's ...
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Try this: if you win this, you are really good ;)
The Heritage Health Prize, is a contest to predict the admission of patients. The company provides you historical data. This is a very interesting exercise where you can apply AI and statistics/econometrics http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp
if you are looking for different projects, why not join ...
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It's often hard to give a definite answer to such "what is top programs" questions. When we did the Quantnet MFE ranking in 2009, it was more or less as a guide for people new to this field since it's hard to find information on these MFE programs.
A lot of your choice will come down to personal preferences such as location, tuition, length, program ...
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