Job offers or Internship offers during/after Columbia MAFN

[lordvid]

Columbia's MAFN, like Columbia's IEOR and unlike NYU's program, has no mandatory internship between the 2nd and 3rd semesters, if I undertstand correctly.

Does this mean most students find jobs to enter directly into in May, when the MAFN program is over?
Can a current student in the Columbia MAFN program, or an alumnus of this program from within the last couple of years, comment on this and provide details/statistics?

And what kind of jobs do most alumni find upon graduating?

 

[subhrain]

I did speak to someone from MFAN and he said that you have to complete the program in 2 semsters (if fulltime), which leaves you with no time to do an internship.

 

[Joe Yu]

Columbia MAFN, UNLIKE Columbia MSFE and MSOR, doesn't allow time for summer internship because students are required to finish the degree in 1 year. Both MSFE and MSOR students can finish their program in 1.5 year in order to do summer internship.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Keep in mind that the Columbia MFE program has been a one year program for many years until recently where you have an option to extend it another semester to give students more time to find internship/full time job.