I am a graduate student (Engineering) and have been working with
Information Technology (IT) within the financial services. My position
in general has been Application Developer but I have been a business
analyst and project manager on a couple of occasions. Although I have
been doing pretty well, I am looking to further my career and jump
into the business side because of superior compensation growth. I have
completed 2 levels of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)
certification and am due for the final level in June. Given these
qualifications I seem to have 3 options but am open to other
suggestions. One is to stay in IT and use the CFA to get better
opportunites but I dont think this to be too lucrative. Option 2 would
be to go to a top business school but this seems to be an expensive
proposition if done full time and I might be mistaken but feel the MBA
bubble may have burst. The third option that seems most interesting is
to do another Masters in "Mathematics in Finance" (also called
"Computational Finance") and since this involves writing programs to
build models I should feel at home given the fact that I am a numbers
guy. I would prefer doing this part time but am open to options.
Please advise me on future career path that would maximize
compensation growth.