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Focus your quantitative skills and ambition toward a rewarding financial career with our 10-month, fast track MSFE program.
Globalization, innovation and increasingly complex and volatile capital markets are fueling demand for quantitative finance professionals. Facing financial risk, organizations depend ever more on innovative analytical procedures—or financial engineering—to understand, manage and enhance their core business.
Our program was developed in response to this need. MSFE students explore the technology and motivation behind today’s financial transactions. From course work in financial economics, mathematical modeling, global markets, computational methods and product engineering, MSFE students build a repertoire of cutting-edge financial skills and experience.
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LEARNING GOALS
The four main goals for students in the MS in Financial Engineering program will be to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of financial engineering methods.
2. Demonstrate a global financial markets point-of-view.
3. Demonstrate integrated financial and analytical know-how.
4. Demonstrate critical thinking.
Specific learning objectives include:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of financial engineering methods.
a. Use fundamental financial engineering mathematical concepts and methods.
b. Evaluate the value of financial securities using alternative theories and applications of risk and return.
c. Employ technology to effectively analyze business issues in quantitative terms.
2. Demonstrate a global financial markets point-of-view.
a. Contrast the business activity of firms in global financial markets.
b. Explain transaction structures and financial activity in world capital markets.
3. Demonstrate integrated financial and analytical know-how.
a. Understand how mathematical tools and financial concepts are applied in industry.
b. Describe financial engineering challenges in industry.
4. Demonstrate critical thinking.
a. Identify and analyze financial engineering problems and opportunities.
b. Apply appropriate financial engineering methods to develop and evaluate alternative solutions.
c. Assess the business impact and risks of financial engineering solutions.