Studies how many of a bank's loans could go bad and sets rules to keep losses down.
You analyze which credit-card customers are falling behind, test a stricter approval rule and estimate how much it would save.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in finance, economics or statistics.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Statistics, Economics.
Growing much faster than average (about 8% over 10 years). Tracks financial risk specialists.
High risk for 10 years. Machine-learning credit models do most loan scoring; fewer analysts needed, mainly to monitor and explain models.
Classes: AP Statistics, Accounting class, AP Calculus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2054.
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