just out of curiosity, what do you think of the criticism that finance students tend to learn too much theory? When I was doing a project for a hedge fund, I s

just out of curiosity, what do you think of the criticism that finance students tend to learn too much theory? When I was doing a project for a hedge fund, I showed an MBA student my analysis (financial model + write up on a bank) and this is a person that also majored in finance at the college level and could not understand any of the work. It was pretty interesting. I never knew there was such a divergence. I ended up teaching myself finance (liberal arts major) so I just learned by going to the library and pouring over finance and accounting books. I actually tell a lot of people that if they are interested in doing real good analyst work they are probably better off majoring in accounting because the finance end is easier to pick up outside of school.