Best Majors/Courses For Quant Research
A Practical Guide
Whenever I skim through r/quant, I see the same types of questions over and over:
What major should I pick? Which classes actually matter?
The problem is that as the field has grown in popularity, it’s also attracted a wave of bad advice—some of it predatory, most of it flat-out wrong. This write-up is for people targeting buy-side quant roles in research, dev, or trading.
