The programme targets at helping students acquire advanced quantitative skills to analyze sophisticated derivative models, price and evaluate the risk of complex financial instruments, and develop appropriate risk management strategies.

Applicants must:

• hold a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university; and
• preferably possess more than 1 year of work experience in the industry; and
• have a strong foundation in quantitative analysis.

Applicants whose entrance qualification is obtained from an institution where the medium of instruction is not English should also fulfill the following minimum English proficiency requirement:

• TOEFL score of 550 (paper-based test) or 79 (internet-based test); or
• Overall band score of 6.5 in International English Language Testing System (IELTS); or
• Score 490 in the new College English Test (CET-6) of Chinese mainland or a pass in the old CET-6 test; or
• Other equivalent qualifications

Core Courses

Students are required to take 8 required core courses (total 24 credit units).

• Corporate Finance
• Derivatives and Risk Management
• Investments
• Stochastic Calculus for Finance
• Professional Seminars in Finance
• Fixed Income Securities
• Option Pricing
• Spreadsheet Modeling in Finance

Electives

Students can choose 2 electives (total 6 credit units) from the list below:

• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Credit Risk Management
• Financial Econometrics
• Financial Systems, Markets and Instruments
• International Financial Management
• An elective in the following disciplines offered by the departments of the College of Business to suit students’ interests and career development needs: Accounting, Economics and Finance, Information Systems, Management, Management Science, and Marketing

Department of Economics and Finance