渣数学背景转专业求定位

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      本人四大工作党一枚……

      我是因为对做了毕设，对经济学比较感兴趣才想到要申请econ master，只是感兴趣，觉得也许读个econ master之后对于宏观经济形势和具体行业的经济形势会有更好的把握（长远来看我的职业目标是做投资方面的工作），并不想做研究。
      所以我是打算申请一年制的econ master（毕竟不想做研究嘛，打打基础也差不多了），taught program完全接受。然后再申请一个finance master，因为一个金融的学位对于找投资方面的工作还是蛮重要的。
      所以我就想咨询一下，（全球范围内）有哪些一年制的、且相对来说比较受认可的（能够一定程度上增强我申请下一个master时候的背景的）、且不太看重本科数学和经济背景的master项目？
      我知道我附加的条件蛮苛刻的，估计英美没几所学校……所以把master的范围定在了全球……大家轻喷

      学校：ZJU 公管
      成绩：均分84.8（渣）……
              数学课只有微积分、线代、概率论数理统计、常微分四件套，且分数极其不均衡，多则90+少则60+，不过总的来看数学课拖了后腿。
              经济类的只学过微经（82）宏经（85）还有自己的一些专业课土地经济学（93）、城市经济学（87）、资源经济学（90）之类的……没学过计量，也没学过中微中宏，吐血……
             另外，毕设做的是实证，用了比较多的计量。目前我会用的软件就只有SPSS和STATA……
GT：T100整，G还在考……T还会再考，我是越高越好星人，毕竟GPA已经硬伤了
      paper：毕设算吗
      推荐信：还在联系中，总之不是强推
      其他：目前在四大工作算不算plus，虽然也不是啥好工作但毕竟有工作经验……
         

cheesechanUID：3505689

1. given your goal, think twice before you really go for a master in economics, especially those solid one
(別人說水的economics master like applied econ, econ policy之類可能更合適)

2. are you really sure you want a finance master after a econ master??

3. TOFEL wont help anything about low GPA at all.

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cheesechan 发表于 2016-5-25 19:21
1. given your goal, think twice before you really go for a master in economics, especially those sol ...

1.You are right. It could be more possible for me to apply those project, my major is public administration. However, I wonder if I can learn econometrics or other data analysis methods in those project. I just worried those projects are too 文科。
2.Not sure…… I just think it may be possible for me to get an investment position after having those two degrees, hope for your opinion.
3.will GRE helps? can I get into programs like tufts, bu, georgetown with a low GPA and not-related undergraduate major?
many thanks~

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VINDAX 发表于 2016-5-25 19:56
1.You are right. It could be more possible for me to apply those project, my major is public admin ...

2. well............be realistic

3. GRE helps.....really a bit.

4. what if MBA with a concentration in econ and finance a couple of years later, given you are in big 4 now?

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cheesechan 发表于 2016-5-25 21:45
2. well............be realistic

3. GRE helps.....really a bit.

4. I hope to go abroad as soon as possible, since audit is not my favor.

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可以试试澳洲的honours项目

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Marshall3 发表于 2016-5-25 23:00
可以试试澳洲的honours项目

this is a good idea, and the same logic can be applied by using Diploma for Graduates in Econ in UK.
but the point is: OP seems don't want to really invest more time in education (打算申请一年制的econ master)

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VINDAX 发表于 2016-5-25 22:21
4. I hope to go abroad as soon as possible, since audit is not my favor.

4. well, no one like audit indeed, but.........they like the accountant experience and license, which is useful in accounting and some finance field.

5. consider MPA with economics and finance policy concentration too.

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cheesechan 发表于 2016-5-25 23:16
this is a good idea, and the same logic can be applied by using Diploma for Graduates in Econ in U ...

澳洲的就是一年啊，其实我一直觉得在版上澳洲的honours项目是被undervalued了

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Marshall3 发表于 2016-5-26 00:06
澳洲的就是一年啊，其实我一直觉得在版上澳洲的honours项目是被undervalued了

honour year is just the last year of the bachelor, instead of a master......

in terms of academics, they are solid preparation for research.
but if one wanna leverage it to get a job, the lack of a master title is a very very very big concern, especially outside Australia.

P.S. Australia bachelor only takes 3 year after secondary, while US one take 4.
Europe one (Bologna) has the same duration as Australian one. Canada, and China is similar to US.
while UK has one more year in secondary, and only 3 year of bachelor, and thus is equal to US one in number of year of education.

and under the AUS system, the honour years is exactly the 4th year of bachelor, which is not yet up to master title level.

e.g. https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/index.php/index/graduate/faq/1 (this logic should also hold not only for EU continental but also Aus one without honour)
Q20: I have a three-year Bachelor's degree from a university in continental Europe. Does that degree satisfy your minimal requirements for admission?

A: A three-year degree from a university in continental Europe does not satisfy our minimal requirements for admission. However, we encourage applications from students with such degrees. After a student with such a degree applies, we evaluate their academic record with all other applications. If we believe we should offer the student admission, the School of Graduate Studies reviews their academic preparation to determine if they are admissible. (We cannot provide any evaluation before an application is submitted.)
(Please note that the UK is not part of continental Europe; a British three-year degree does satisfy our minimal requirements.)

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cheesechan 发表于 2016-5-26 00:20
honour year is just the last year of the bachelor, instead of a master......

in terms of acad ...

是的，honours确实不是master，但是我不觉得这个title在申请phd时有什么意义。对于澳洲学生而言，三年成绩优秀的可以进入第四年的honours项目，这一年基本上就是上postgraduate courses，然后写一篇thesis，也就是说至少可以拿到一个老师的比较有内容的推荐。而且选课一般是比较灵活，可以用很多数学课来替换。就我所知澳洲几个比较好的本科honours毕业直接申TOP10的每年也都会有几个，而且国内学生拿bachelor学位申请的话门槛不高，应该说value added还是很可观的。

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Marshall3 发表于 2016-5-26 00:37
是的，honours确实不是master，但是我不觉得这个title在申请phd时有什么意义。对于澳洲学生而言，三年成绩 ...

Agree so,  and thus I said it is a good solid academic preparation.

但是你comment 前請先看看，樓主哪有一絲半絲想申phd 的意欲…?
你建議的honour year,  對樓主這個目標(applied nature+1 year only) 來說，是一個大坑

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cheesechan 发表于 2016-5-26 00:41
Agree so,  and thus I said it is a good solid academic preparation.

但是你comment 前請先看看， ...

哎呀我没注意。。anyway，就当提供给别的有意向的人做参考了

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Marshall3 发表于 2016-5-26 00:48
哎呀我没注意。。anyway，就当提供给别的有意向的人做参考了

順道補充一下, a master title also may matters a lot even one plan to go academics.

世界上大多數的地方, excluding US (where the toppest econ departments are), 要申PhD都是必須要有master才能申的.
在歐陸如是, 加拿大如是, 英國的也如是.
and as far as I know, this is also the case in Japan and China.

to be short, basically every (well......indeed definitely not 100%, but a vast majority) PhD outside US need a master to apply.

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cheesechan 发表于 2016-5-26 02:59
順道補充一下, a master title also may matters a lot even one plan to go academics.

世界上大多 ...

是的，澳洲的话倒是不用非要master，但澳洲研究生教育老实说一般。反正肯定有trade-off，不可能有完美的选项，但是我是觉得如果一门心思申请美国phd的话，澳洲的honours会比世界范围内大多数master项目有利。