Summer Internships

100% of students who sought internships obtained paid summer internship positions.

Number of MFE Students:   40
Number seeking internships:  40
Number of Internships:  40

Internship Locations 

Los Angeles: 20 
New York: 5 
San Francisco: 4 
Boston: 4 
Denver: 1 
Chicago: 1 
People's Republic of China: 2 
Germany: 1 
Sweden: 1 
Canada: 1

Hiring Organizations

Ascend Analytics
Atlas Capital
Bank of the West
Belmont Capital (2)
Camden Group
Capital Group
CFA-Canada
CICC
CITI (2)
Convergent Wealth Advisors
Deutsche Bank
Duff & Phelps (2)
First Quadrant
FTSE
Guardian Life
Huatai United Securities
Informed Portfolio Management
JMN Financial
Morgan Stanley
Nomura
Northwest Mutual
Panagora (2)
PIMCO
Relativity Hedge Fund
Research Affiliates (2)
ROW Asset Management (2)
Southern California Edison
State Street
Transamerica
UCLA Foundation
Union Bank
Universa
Wedbush
Western Asset Management

Sample of Companies Recruiting UCLA MFE Students

Ascend Analytics
Bank of the West
Bloomberg
Camden Asset Management
China First Corporation
China International Capital Corporation
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Cutler Group
D.E.Shaw
DBS Singapore
Duff & Phelps
First Quadrant
Franklin Templeton
Future Fund of Australia
GF Securities
Goldman Sachs
Group One Trading
Guardian Life
Informed Portfolio Management
ING Hong Kong
Jane Street
Janus Capital
JPMorgan
KPMG
Macquarie Capital
MKP Capital
Montague DeRosa
Morgan Stanley
New Frontier Advisors
Newedge USA LLC
Nomura Asset Management - New York
Nomura Equity Management - Hong Kong
Nomura Fixed Income - Singapore
NumeriX
Obex Securities
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company
Pacific Life Insurance
PanAgora Asset Management
PG&E
PIMCO
Piper Jaffray
PWC
Quantifi Solutions
Research Affiliates
Rosenblatt Securities
Schwab
Shinnecock Group
Simplex-Tech
Southern California Edison
Standard Charter
State Street
Strategic Global Advisors
Susquehanna International Group
Thomson Reuters
Toronto Dominion Bank
Trust Company of the West (TCW)
UCLA Foundation
Universa
Wedbush
Wilshire Associates
Zions Bank
ZS Associates

Full-time Employment

86% of students who sought full-time employment accepted positions in financial engineering.

Number of MFE Students:   40
Number seeking full-time jobs:  36
Number of full-time placements:  31

Salary Data

Average: 98,000
Range: 70,000 - 155,000
Median: 95,000
Average bonus: 32,000

Full-time Locations

Employers

Athene Asset Management
Bank of the West (SF)
BBVA Compass (Alabama)
CICC (PRC)
CITI (NY)
Cutler Group (SF)
Duff & Phelps (SF) (3)
Franklin Templeton (SF) (2)
Gifford Fong (SF)
Houlihan Lokey (LA)
Morgan Stanley (NY)
OneWestBank (LA)
PAAMCO (LA)
Paul Capital (SF)
PG & E (SF)
PIMCO (LA) (4)
Piper Jaffray (SF)
PWC (SF)
Research Affiliates (LA)
ROW Asset Mgm.  (LA) (2)
UCLA (MA Statistics) (LA)
Union Bank (LA)
Wedbush (LA)
Wilshire Associates (LA)

Job Titles
Advisory Asset Analyst
Analyst
Associate
Associate, Analytics
Associate, Trading
Associate/Analytics
Associate-Long Term Contract
Equity Linked Products Group
Financial Engineer
Quant Analyst
Quant Analyst, Multi- Asset Strategic Grp.
Quant Analyst/Prop Trader
Risk Manager
Sr. Associate, Fixed Income Quant Researcher
Sr. Financial Analyst
Sr. Risk Consultant
Trader
Vice President