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Hi Everyone, Here's my Profile: Indian, 23, Male GMAT: 760 (Q50,V44) 99%ile Undegrad GPA: 4.1 out of 4.3 (1st in Class, Academic Medal, Dean’s List in all Semesters. Full Tuition Fee Scholarship for undergraduate) Undergrad Major: Mechanical Engineering (w/ Minor in Business Management) Courses: Advance Mech. Engg courses (which I hope substitutes for Math requirements), Programming Courses (VBA, C++ etc. also proficient in Python) Broad fundamental courses in Accounting, Finance Research Experience: Undergraduate Engineering Research Work Experience: Working in Transaction Banking Graduate Program (2 years by Fall 2019) in Hong Kong. It will include 6 Months of work experience in London. Mostly sales, business analytics etc. related rotation. Concentration Applying to: Finance Number of programs planned to apply to: T10-50 What made you want to pursue a PhD?: Strong Research Interest, Interested in exploring various models to predict industry returns. Questions or concerns Ideally, I would want to pursue PhD in Finance and have an academic role. However, for want of enough Finance/Math research experience, I believe getting into Top 20 Finance PhD programs would be tough. So, in such a situation, should I target Top 20-50 Finance PhD Programs? Or are there any Masters in Finance (M.Res. or M.Phil) programs which can help my cause in getting into a better Finance PhD program after? Or should I instead go for a Quantitative Masters of Finance Program and keep my options of working in the industry and going back to academia (if I still want to).

Hi Everyone, Need some help in exploring my options: Ideally, I would want to pursue PhD in Finance and have an academic role. However, for want of enough Finance/Math research experience, I believe getting into Top 20 Finance PhD programs would be tough. So, in such a situation, should I target Top 20-50 Finance PhD Programs? Or are there any Masters in Finance (M.Res. or M.Phil) programs which can help my cause in getting into a better Finance PhD program after? Or should I instead go for a Quantitative Masters of Finance Program and keep my options of working in the industry and going back to academia (if I still want to) What are my chances of getting in top programs given my profile: Indian, 23, Male Education: Mechanical Engineering from HKUST, Top 2 in Hong Kong. GPA: 4.1 out of 4.3 (1st in Class, Academic Medal, Dean’s List in all Semesters. Full Tuition Fee Scholarship for undergraduate) GMAT: 760 (Q50,V44) Recommendations: Fron Asst. Finance Professor who knows me well, from Final year engineering supervisor (still considering other options) Courses: Advance Mech. Engg courses (which I hope substitutes for Math requirements), Programming Courses (VBA, C++ etc. also proficient in Python) Broad fundamental courses in Accounting, Finance Work Experience: Working in Transaction Banking Graduate Program (2 years by Fall 2019) in Hong Kong. It will include 6 Months of work experience in London. Mostly sales, business analytics etc. related rotation. Research Experience: Undergraduate research experience. International Experience: (I don't think it matters much, but still putting it out there) High School- Singapore (2 years) Undergraduate- Hong Kong (4 years) Internship- United States (1 month) Full Time Work- Hong Kong (1 year) Full Time Work Rotation- London (6 months) Thanks a Lot

Hi Everyone, I am a undergraduate degree holder in Computer Science from SJCE, Mysore. Passed out in June 2012, currently working in cisco, bangalore. I want to do my masters in Distributed Systems(Cloud Computing). My financial status is not that good so i am planning to apply for German Universities as they do not have any tuition fees. Can you guys please help me to choose a good university with a good program in germany ? Here is a list of universities that i found after googling in the internet. 1) ETH Zurich (Switzerland) - Masters in Computer Science 2) Technische Universitat of Munchen(Munich) - a) Masters in Informatics b) Computational Mechanics 3) University of Frieburg(Germany) - Masters in Computer Science 4) RWTH Aachen University (Germany) - a) Computer Engineering Science b) Software systems Engineering 5) Leibniz Universitat Hannover (Germany) - Masters in Internet Technologies and Information Systems 6) University of Munster - Masters in Information Systems 7) Technische Universitat Dresden - International Masters programme in Distributed Systems 8) University of Gottingen - Masters in Internet Technologies and Information Systems 9) hamburg University of technology - a) Masters in Information and Communication Systems b) Masters in Intelligent Adaptive Systems 10) University of Stuttgart - Masters in Information technology 11) Darmstadt University of technology - Masters in Distributed Systems 12) Ecole Polytechnique (Switzerland) 13) Ludwig Maxmillans University (Munich, Germany)

I have worked 20 years before I got enrolled in the current MBA program that I am taking, because I want to switch to academia. Such a change has been really hard in China, my home country due to my age. I learn that programs abroad do not reject applications simply because of age issue. Here is my profile and hope you can help evaluate and give me suggestions as to which PhD programs to apply to. Any other advice is welcome. Target concentration: Entrepreneurship (I have 7 years entrepreneurial experience) GPA: undergrad. 3.36 (I doubt if it is meaningful for my case.), BA in English (not good?) MBA 86.5% so far (top 5%, my school refuse to convert into 4-point scale GPA) Publicatoins: one in Chinese with a local chinese journal in 2004 one in English, currently under peer review (SSCI journal but low-tiered) Honors: Semi-finalist in Global Business Plan Competition (UT Texas, 1st award for a mainland Chinese team. We got a slot from a feeding competition in the US); runner-up in DFJ-Cisco Global Business Plan competition. Ranked No. 1 out of the 900 applicants and honored the "best entrant scholarship". I took iBT with no previous preparation two days ago. I believe the results would be 90-100. I will take GMAT in two weeks, currently preparing for that. But mock exam results are barely 600 (Q47; V27). Please advise which programs you know may be suitable for me, considering that my poor scores in tests and old age. Thanks.