How to transition from computer science to finance?
To switch from computer science to finance, you would likely need to develop skills in areas such as financial analysis, financial modeling, accounting, and economic theory.
Additionally, knowledge of programming and data analysis would be valuable in order to analyse large sets of financial data..
Is finance and computer science a good combo?
If you're interested in quantitative shops like D.E.
Shaw or Citadel, the computer science aspect will definitely give you a leg up.
If you're not, computer science and finance is still a strong combination that'll get you looked at by many places (provided your GPA is up to par)..
Is finance easier than programming?
They are both hard in very different ways.
Having some experience with both, I'd say that CS is harder on and individual level, but finance is more difficult at a business level.
In CS, everything is deterministic.
If there's a bug, it's because you told the code to do something wrong..
I don't know about ten, but these are pretty much the core classes in any CS major:
Calculus.Discrete Mathematics.Probability and Statistics.Computer Science Theory.Programming.Algorithms & Data Structures.Computer Architecture.Operating Systems.- If you're interested in quantitative shops like D.E.
Shaw or Citadel, the computer science aspect will definitely give you a leg up.
If you're not, computer science and finance is still a strong combination that'll get you looked at by many places (provided your GPA is up to par). - There are many low CS salaries but the ridiculously high ones drag up the average.
I'd say 80 is pretty safe to assume, but 100 would probably require a few years experience to attain for most people.
According to data from UF, median starting total comp is $100k and average is around $118k.
