Columbia QMSS any use as a professional degree?

[Inscrutable_Chinaman]

Just found out today that I've been accepted into Columbia's Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences course.

It's appealing because I still haven't really decided if I went to go the academic or professional route... I've been kicking the can down the road ever since last year of undergrad.

 

A couple QMSS grads have been accepted into top-tier IR/PS PhD programs, so it could potentially open certain doors that were closed to me previously (having taken no quant in undergrad at all).

 

But, what I'm curious about is how a QMSS grad would be treated by a government entity or IGO versus a policy school (in my specific case, Fletcher) grad.

 

Any thoughts on this one, guys?

 

(Sidenote: It seems pretty clear that people in econ/finance do use the QMSS for professional development, but I'm not really interested in those fields.)

 

[rack_attack124]

On April 4, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Inscrutable_Chinaman said:

Just found out today that I've been accepted into Columbia's Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences course.

It's appealing because I still haven't really decided if I went to go the academic or professional route... I've been kicking the can down the road ever since last year of undergrad.

 

A couple QMSS grads have been accepted into top-tier IR/PS PhD programs, so it could potentially open certain doors that were closed to me previously (having taken no quant in undergrad at all).

 

But, what I'm curious about is how a QMSS grad would be treated by a government entity or IGO versus a policy school (in my specific case, Fletcher) grad.

 

Any thoughts on this one, guys?

 

(Sidenote: It seems pretty clear that people in econ/finance do use the QMSS for professional development, but I'm not really interested in those fields.)

 

well did you end up attending? I'm waitlisted at this program.