As a Phd student in Financial Engineering, I would...

As a Phd student in Financial Engineering, I would like to say Stevens has one of the best financial lab in the US. Our corporate partners are ConvergEx, Bloomberg, ICAP, Reuters, Gain Capital, etc. The high-frequency financial data from Reuters strongly supports my research. Our professors have projects from Sloan Foundation, SEC, CFTC and other places.

Fairly speaking, our graduate courses are teaching the same knowledge with NYU and Columbia, but the grading is somehow not that tough. It is easy to get A and you need to be responsible for the study quality of yourself. A good point for this is you don't need to focus too much on the grades and have time to do real world practice and research. The graduate students have chance to go to Jefferies for an intern as part of FE800 course. Co-op program is also available to FE students.