Carnegie Mellon University

One of the most prestigious private research institutes in the country in Carnegie Mellon University, a school of around 10,000 students (graduate and undergraduates) located in Pittsburgh.

The school was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900 as the Carnegie Technical Schools and became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912. In 1967 the school merged with the Mellon Institute and now includes seven colleges and schools, including the well-heeled Tepper School of Business.

Students who graduate from Carnegie Mellon will be able to grasp the basics of the stock market. The finance and business classes they take will open their eyes for long term investing. Trading schools and other institutions are able to offer information on topics like market volatility, all designed to make students wiser and keep them safer.

The Tepper School offers masters degrees in business administration and a joint degree in computational finance. Joint degrees are also offered with civil and environmental engineering. The Tepper School is highly regarded for all its programs and was ranked as the No. 1 MBA business school in the nation by the Wall Street Journal in 2007. The school is highly regarded by Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, and Financial Times, and never fails to rank high in the annual rankings produced by various publications.

The MBA curriculum is designed to increase in complexity and application throughout the process. The first year of schooling builds on fundamentals like stock market education. The second year advances the theories, as well as long term investing, and adds to the depth of the program. Trading schools would be fortunate to snag a graduate of the Tepper School, which produces pupils who are capable of guiding a corporation through issues like global expansion, labor negotiations, operations, market share, shifting economies and financial performance.

The doctoral degree is organized around a preliminary set of courses in the core discipline of economics, organization behavior and theory, and operations research. A PhD in mathematical finance is presented in conjunction with the school of mathematics.

Many of the top employees for Tepper graduates are Bank of America, Booz and Company, Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Amazon.com, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, and H.J. Heinz.