Bloomberg - June 27, 2007
With the surge in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and hedge fund investing, U.S. securities firms are struggling to fill all of the empty spots at their investment banks, in trading rooms and on quantitative finance desks. Employment in financial services grew 37 percent to 830,000 people in the decade ended in 2006, according to the New York- based Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, an industry lobbying group.

``We know that we are hot property,'' says Rishi Dhingra, a master's degree candidate in quantitative and computational finance at Georgia Tech. Banks are adding engineering schools to the roster of business campuses where they recruit. During the past two years, Citigroup Inc. has started visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Georgia Tech in Atlanta. To read the full article, go to www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJ5z5JLM4JP8&refer=news#