Here is an interesting article:
Where Homework Is Managing a $200,000 Stock Portfolio
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/where-homework-is-managing-a-200000-stock-portfolio/
Adelphi is one of the latest universities to bring the trading floor to the classroom, relying on guidance and financing from wealthy bankers and their Wall Street firms. Only three business schools had such operations in 1997, according to Rise Display, which installs tickers, video screens and trading software for universities and financial institutions. Now, more than 200 institutions around the country â from Ivy League universities to small liberal art colleges â have them. Six new centers are set to open over the holiday season.
Big trading firms and their top executives often foot the bill. Goldman Sachs donated $300,000 to help Indiana University build a trading room and other facilities in 2001. Merrill Lynch gave Baruch about $100,000. Energy firms with trading operations, including Dynegy, El Paso and Conoco Phillips, have also cut checks for trading centers.
Robert Berns logged more than a hundred hours on the trading floor in his senior year at George Washington â an experience he promoted in his interviews at Wells Fargo Securities. He joined Wells as an investment banker in Charlotte, N.C., shortly after graduating last May.
U don't see Institutional invest in 3rd party educational vendors/signal provider. They believe they are a joke. Institutional only invest in HIGHER EDUCATION!