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20 Nov 2009, 9:53 AM   | Masters of Commerce (Finance) You can hide this advertisement by registering. Hi Guys, I have just recently completed a bachelor degree in engineering(chemical), and wish to head into something more finance related, I think I would be very interested in heading into a career path in stockbroking or fund management, so naturally I thought doing Mcom majoring in finance would make sense, I just got a couple of questions and if anyone could help that would be great: (1) It seems that 2 majors is the norm for Mcom, or do more people just select a single major, and filled the rest of the slots (other than prerequsite core courses) with electives and more core units? Is this really down to preference or having 2 majors give you more advantages? (2) I wish to accelerate Mcom by doing 6 units per year, 2 units in winter break , 2 units for 1st semester, 2 for 2nd semester, Master to be completed in 2 years, is this achievable? (3) If I want to get a job in investment banking sector, Mcom(finance) is the way to go? I was looking at Mcom(finance and international business) as well which looks quite attractive. Thanks in advance
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Yesterday, 8:55 PM  | Re: Masters of Commerce (Finance) If you want to work in ibanking, dont bother with the MCom. You'll just waste 20k. Ibanking doesnt need a finance major. Get some work experience, that will help more.
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20 Nov 2009, 9:53 AM | Re: Masters of Commerce (Finance) Well I don't have any commerce background so I think it would highly dubious to be able to get a job in investment banking sector without any qualification, I understand that having work experience is important but even so, I doubt it would be a hard decision for a company to choose between someone with a degree (finance) and work experience, and somone who simply have work experience.
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MCom will be a waste of money and time.
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20 Nov 2009, 9:53 AM | Re: Masters of Commerce (Finance) yeah well okay...... I don't know, perhaps a graduate diploma would be sufficient then. But your friends sound like they will be the people in finance engineering, calculatings yields for complex derivatives and such..... I was thinking more like fund management kind of stuff..... I dont know, it is a very expensive degree (Mcom), 33k all up....
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