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Curriculum

The curriculum of the Financial Engineering program is designed to provide the students with the background required for modeling and solving problems that arise in the financial-service industry. Courses such as Object Oriented Programming for Financial Applications, Market and Credit Risk Management, Elements of Structured Finance, and Deal Theory and Structured Analysis are taught by practitioners from the financial industry, enhancing the practical knowledge and the financial engineering skills of our students.

Following is the list of the nine required courses:

MTH 9814 : A Quantitative Introduction to Pricing Financial Instruments
MTH 9815 : Object Oriented Programming for Financial Applications
MTH 9821 : Numerical Linear Algebra
MTH 9831 : Real Analysis and Probability
MTH 9852 : Numerical Methods for PDEs in Finance
MTH 9862 : Stochastic Processes in Finance
MTH 9871 : Advanced Computational Methods in Finance
MTH 9873 : Interest Rate Models and Interest Rate Derivatives
MTH 9903 : Capstone Project and Presentation
 

Courses with a strong mathematical emphasis include MTH 9821, MTH 9831, MTH 9852, and MTH 9862. These core math courses are, in effect two part year-long courses: MTH 9821 and MTH 9852: numerical methods for pricing financial instruments (tree-based methods, Monte Carlo methods, and finite difference methods) MTH 9831 and MTH 9862: probability and stochastic processes methods for describing and pricing financial instruments

The first course in each sequence, MTH 9821 and MTH 9831 are only offered in the Fall semester. This prevents us from offering Spring semester admission, since every student is expected to take at least one core math course in the first semester of study.

The following courses may be taken as electives:
MTH 9841     Statistics for Finance
MTH 9842     Linear and Quadratic Optimization Techniques
MTH 9845     Market and Credit Risk Management
MTH 9849     Deal Theory and Structured Analysis
MTH 9881     Current Topics in Mathematical Finance
FIN 9783        Investment Analysis 3
FIN 9786        International Financial Markets
FIN 9790        Seminar in Finance
FIN 9793        Advanced Investment Analysis
FIN 9797        Options Markets
STA 9700      Modern Regression Analysis
STA 9701       Time Series: Forecasting and Statistical Modeling
ECO 82100    Econometrics I
ECO 82100    Financial Econometrics
 
 

Suggested Curriculum for full-time students


Fall Semester , First Year of Study
   MTH 9814 A Quantitative Introduction to Pricing Financial Instruments
   MTH 9815 Object Oriented Programming for Financial Applications
   MTH 9821 Numerical Linear Algebra
   MTH 9831 Real Analysis and Probability
Spring Semester, First Year of Study
   MTH 9852 Numerical Methods for PDEs in Finance
   MTH 9862 Stochastic Processes in Finance
  Two elective courses

Fall Semester, Second Year of Study
   MTH 9871 Advanced Computational Methods in Finance
   MTH 9873 Interest Rate Models and Interest Rate Derivatives
   MTH 9903 Capstone Project and Presentation
  One elective course




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