Career as Financial Analyst

[Rajan90]

But I am more interested in pursuing my career as a Financial Analyst.

I have got admit for masters program in Industrial Engineering from University of Washington. I am planning to take my major as operations research. I am also allowed to takes few courses (17 credits) from stats, maths department.

Can anybody tell me what kind of courses should one take?

Is it possible for an undergraduate to take courses related to Operations Research without any background of commerce to becomes one.

Is it possible to form a strong in finance using my above course work? Or should first do only OR , gain experience and then do MBA in finance??

Thanks in advance.

[sisyphus1]

What's your background? If you have no experience finance, definitely take an intro to quant finance course (make sure they are using the Hull book). Also, what do you want to within finance? This industry (especially quant finance) is experiencing massive saturation and many candidates from top Masters MFE/IEOR/STATS programs are having a hard time finding jobs.

lastly, i would recommend you check out www.quantnet.com to get some quality info