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Originally Posted by kscarrol
If purely interested in finance/IB, consider a one year Masters of Finance degree. They are gaining popularity and you won't take all the marketing, organizational behavior crap you get with the two year MBA. But as KingofJercho points out, you want a degree from a top school. Doesn't have to be Wharton (but that wouldn't hurt!) as there a number of excellent schools out there. After 15 years of IB I am now teaching finance our local university and we place a number of students with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan etc every year...
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The initial investment for a career change by getting a masters in finance makes this a very attractive option when compared to getting an MBA but with that there has to be some drawbacks to this wrote. Care to elaborate on what these drawbacks may be?