What are the most difficult classes for finance majors? Best schools in U.S. for finance?

Answer 1

The best schools for finance (undergraduate) are Wharton, MIT, Berkeley, Michigan -- pretty much in that order.

The best schools for Finance (PhD) are Chicago, MIT, Stanford, Wharton, UCLA, Berkeley, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Rochester and Columbia. Harvard Economics might make the list -- but not HBS (in my opinion).

On the undergraduate level, either futures and options or the fixed income classes are probably the hardest -- though in my opinion, finance majors ought to be taking higher level statistics and mathematics classes (which many would find more difficult). On the PhD level, the continuous time finance class is the one that I found the most difficult.

On the MBA level, none of the finance classes were too hard -- though I had problems with financial accounting -- because it makes no sense.