September 2017 – The Baruch MFE team placed 3rd out of 32 teams in the New York Datathon presented by Citadel and Citadel Securities in partnership with Correlation One.
June 2017 – The Baruch MFE Program wins the Sixth International Association of Quantitative Finance (IAQF) Student Competition, the third consecutive year the Baruch MFE Program won this competition; news article from Baruch College and Baruch MFE.
February 2017 – The Baruch MFE Program wins the 14th Rotman International Trading Competition held at University of Toronto and included 52 academic institutions from four continents; news article from Baruch College and Baruch MFE.
October 2016 – The Baruch MFE Program was ranked Number 1 in the Quantnet 2017 Ranking of Best Financial 
Engineering Programs; news article from Baruch College
June 2016 – The Baruch MFE Program wins the Fifth International Association of Quantitative Finance (IAQF) Student Competition; news article from Baruch MFE.
February 2016 – The Baruch MFE Program wins the 13th Rotman International Trading Competition held at University of Toronto in record-breaking fashion: the overall score establishes a new all-time record; won three of the six events (commodities trading, credit risk, sales & trading), second in equity valuation, third in algo trading; news article from Baruch College.
February 2016 – Song Wang (Baruch MFE’16) won the Solve-a-thon at MIT trading competition organized by WorldQuant and a $10,000 money prize; 700 traders worldwide participated in the competition.
June 2015 – The Baruch MFE Program wins the Fourth Annual International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE) Academic Student Competition; news article from Baruch MFE.
May 2015 – 96% placement rate and $111,000 average first year guaranteed compensation for January 2013 – May 2015 Baruch MFE graduates; 2013-2015 Baruch MFE Employment Report.
February 2014 – The Baruch MFE Program wins Fourth Place in 2014 Rotman International Trading Competition held at University of Toronto; news article from Baruch MFE.
August 2013 – Dr. Andrew Lesniewski joins the Baruch MFE Program as tenured full professor, news article from Baruch MFE.
April 2013 – Dr. Jim Gatheral named Presidential Professor at Baruch College; news articles from Baruch College; Baruch MFE.
February 2013 – The Baruch MFE Program wins 3rd place (out of 48 teams) at the 10th Rotman International Trading Competition held at University of Toronto; news articles from Baruch MFE; Baruch College.
February 2013 – The Baruch MFE Program wins 2nd place (out of 27 teams) in the 2nd IAFE Student Competition. Team members: Yi Kelvin Zhang (Captain), Srinivas Kannepalli, Jin Kong, Ran Sally Liu, Yujia Helen Sun, and Shixiang Sean Zhang. News articles from Baruch MFE; Baruch College.
December 2012 – Baruch MFE student Juan Pablo Alonso (Baruch MFE’13) won 2nd place in the 2012 Metaquotes Automated Trading Championship and a $25,000 money prize. News articles from Baruch MFE;The Automated Trading Championship.
September 2012 – The Baruch MFE Program celebrated its Tenth Anniversary; news article from Baruch MFE.
September 2010 – Dr. Jim Gatheral joins the Baruch MFE Program from Merrill Lynch, where he was head of equity derivatives trading for 17 years; news article from Baruch MFE; Baruch College article: The Jim Gatheral Effect.
April 2009 – Vladimir Toshchevikov wins 7th place and a $10,000 prize (73% strategy return) in the 4th Interactive Brokers Trading Olympiad; seven of the 62 winners (from 13 countries) are Baruch MFE students; news article Baruch College.
April 2008 – Alain Ledon wins 15th place in the 3rd Interactive Brokers Trading Olympiad; news article from Baruch College
April 2007 – Konstantinos Tsahas wins 2nd place and a $50,000 prize in the 2nd Interactive Brokers Trading Olympiad; news articles from Baruch MFE; Baruch College.
April 2006 – Bharath Govindarajan wins 2nd place and a $25,000 prize in the 1st Interactive Brokers Trading Olympiad; news article from Baruch MFE.