2021 QuantNet Ranking of Best Financial Engineering Programs

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