July 2020 – Baruch MFE student Yuanxin Kevin Zheng won 3rd place in the inaugural Citadel Aperture Competition, out of 161 competitors. The competition enabled the participants to create and manage a $60 million long-short equity portfolio, receiving real market performance feedback.

February 2020 – The Baruch MFE Program won first place in the 2020 Rotman International Trading Competition; news article from Baruch College.

February 2020 – The Baruch MFE Program was ranked Number 3 worldwide in the Risk Net 2020 Quant Finance Master’s Guide.

December 2019 – The Baruch MFE Program publishes its first 5th Year Career Development Report and is featured in The Wall Street Journal (PDF).

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January 2019 – The Baruch MFE was ranked Number 3 worldwide in theRisk Net 2019 Quant Finance Master’s Guide; news article from Baruch College.

December 2018 – The Baruch MFE Program was ranked Number 2 in the Quantnet 2019 Ranking of Best Financial Engineering Programs; news article from Baruch College.

November 2018 – Baruch was #1 in the Top 25 Schools for Data Science at Master Program level, ranked by average score on the Correlation One Data Science Professionals Exam administered to over 20,000 candidates. Every student scored above the global average, and over half scored in the top 10% of all test-takers. News article from Baruch College.

September 2018 – Baruch MFE student Xiangtian (Forest) Deng was on the winning team (out of 30 teams) at the 2018 Columbia Data Science Hackathon which took place on September 29–30 at Columbia University. His team constructed a bitcoin trading algorithm by using an ensemble of machine learning algorithms — XGBoost, ARIMA, LSTM, and NLP — to predict market price.

December 2017 – The Baruch MFE Program was ranked Number 1 in the Quantnet 2018 Ranking of Best Financial Engineering Programs; news article from Baruch College.

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.