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Hi, Myself Manistesh Anand, I am planning to pursue PhD in Finance in US University but am unable to decide where to apply. Will be very kind, if you guys can suggest few colleges which will be good fit for my profile. Since, I don't know in particular how to map ranking to colleges and specifics about colleges would be obliged, if you guys can write college names along with the rank. Thanks Bachelors in Engineering; IIT Kharagpur (top 5 engineering college in India) CGPA: 8.5/10 (Rank 5/51) GMAT: 770 (51Q 42V 7-IR 5-AWA) Passed: Level 1 FRM, Economics Actuaries Paper and Level 2 CFA Work Experience: 2 Years: Trading Analyst, Treasury Tata Steel (one of the big 5 corporate treasury in India) 1 Year 6 Month: Junior Analyst, Fixed Income Research; Bank of America (Quantitative Modelling, trade idea generation, research recommendation for Latin America region) Past 9 Months, during weekends I work on research projects (Infrastructure Financing) with a professor at IIM Calcutta (top 3 business school in India) Recommendation: Mostly average (since, I wont be taking from my employers) Research Paper: none in finance (1 conference paper in metallurgy) Warm Regards Manitesh

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Hey, I am from India and my profile is as below: Undergrad: B.Tech - Computer Engineering - CGPA of 9.05/10 (As per Columbia Univ conversion it comes to around 3.97) Grad: Post Grad Program in Management from IIM Shillong (A top 15 B School in India) - CGPA of 8.05/10 (As per Columbia Conversion it is around 3.68/4) (Majority of electives I had taken were of Finance) I had a research paper published during my undergrad, but no research work published later. I have negligible work experience. GRE: 169 Q, 163 V TOEFL: 114 I understand it is extremely difficult to get into a top-20 PhD program in US, so can you please tell me where I can apply, as in which Universities I have a fair chance. I am applying for MS-Financial Engg program at Columbia, CMU, NYU, UCB. Would it improve my chances of getting into a better PhD program if I finish my MS-FE from a good university? Thanks in advance!