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For the PhD program, you can try Cornell, NYU, Columbia and Princeton...
Actually, most of the quants on wall street are from Physics, Maths, Stat and Engineering PhDs. They way of quant modelling is essentially dealing with numerical problems. So in addition to the programs above, I would recommend you apply some Stats program as this area is cool for electronic trading. Especially, you can look for professors who does research in finance in stat department.
For the masters program, you want to be careful. In recent years, we are seeing schools like NYU and Columbia have more than one MFE programs(different departments). We've interviewed people from both of the programs, there are huge differences......
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