Master of Science in Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics
This unique, interdisciplinary program offers a balance between an overall understanding of finance and an opportunity to focus on specialized interests to provide both breadth and depth in the educational experience.
The M.S. focused on Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics (FERA) provides students with the knowledge and skills to respond to changes and challenges that characterize the fast-moving world of quantitative finance.
Learn cutting-edge financial theory as well as advanced analytical techniques that are key to success as a financial expert. Students will be exposed to emerging concepts, practices and techniques in the finance industry through rigorous training in empirical research and modeling, using a variety of professional databases and computer software applications.
The program is 1 year and 30 credits.
Typical Master’s Course Sequence
- Financial Management I
Or one of the following:
- Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management
- Financial Trading and Investing
- Investments I
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- Financial Computation
Or one of the following:
- Numerical Computing
- Introduction to Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
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- Options, Futures and Derivatives Markets
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Concentration Courses: General Track
- Accounting for Reporting and Control
- Advanced Corporate Finance
- Advanced Econometrics
- Applied Regression Analysis
- Computational Finance
- Data Analysis
- Econometrics
- Financial Econometrics Modeling or Data Analysis
- Financial Management II
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Financial Mathematics and Simulation
- Financial Simulation
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Financial Trading and Investing
- Forecasting and Simulation
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- Independent Study
- International Finance
- Introduction to Neural Networks
- Introduction to Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
- Investments I
- Investments II
- Linear Programming
- Mathematical Statistics
- Nonlinear Programming
- Numerical Computing
- Probability Theory and Applications
- Risk Management
- Stochastic Processes in Communication and Control
- Time Series Analysis
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Concentration Courses: Quantitative Analysis Track
- Advanced Econometrics
- Asset Pricing
- Computational Finance
- Econometrics
- Financial Econometrics Modeling
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Financial Mathematics and Simulation
- Financial Simulation
- Financial Trading and Investing
- Independent Study
- Introduction to Financial Mathematics and Engineering
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- Introduction to Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
- Investments I
- Linear Programming
- Mathematical Statistics
- Nonlinear Programming
- Numerical Computing
- Probability Theory and Applications
- Risk Management
- Stochastic Processes in Communication and Control
- Time Series Analysis
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Concentration Courses: Financial Risk Analysis Track
- Accounting for Reporting and Control
- Advanced Corporate Finance
- Advanced Hedge Funds and Financial Markets
- Financial Econometrics Modeling
- Financial Management II
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Financial Statement Analysis
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- Financial Trading and Investing
- Hedge Funds and Financial Markets
- International Finance
- Investments I
- Linear Programming
- Risk Management
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