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Re:Is The Norwegian Startup Scene Hot Or Not? by ballstothewalls on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @11:34AM (#3944120)
On a related note, I was playing around with going to Norway to get a Masters in statistics. Does anyone have any insight on whether this would be a good idea or bad one? I suspect i'd want to move back to the US afterwards. Would the degree be marketable?
Re:Is The Norwegian Startup Scene Hot Or Not? by 10x on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @04:55AM (#3947652)
there's not many master students doing a pure stats degree at the university of Oslo, and as a consequence some courses are offered only periodically, but you can still "self-study" them for credits, and there anyways enough related courses in fields like computational finance, numerical analysis and machine learning.

https://www.uio.no/english/studies/mn-masters/modat-master/s...

regarding moving back to the US: you can always take a local job in the oil industry or perhaps in a global company like mckinsey and then move back when you have some real experience (it should be easy to get a job here)