MSc in Financial Engineering (MSc FE)
A two-year English-taught master's in financial engineering run in Shenzhen, built on optimization, stochastic models, investment science and derivatives, plus a China-markets course. Electives cover risk, fixed income, credit, algorithmic trading, machine learning and internships. Degree is issued by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
What you’ll study
Core
- Optimization
- Stochastic Models
- Investment Sciences
- Financial Derivatives
- Introduction to Chinese Financial Markets
Electives
- Financial Data Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Term Structure Models and Fixed-income Securities
- Foreign Exchange & Commodity Market Modeling
- Credit Risk Modeling and Products
- Computational Methods in Financial Engineering
- Algorithm Trading
- Special Topics in Financial Engineering - Corporate Risk Management
- Project
- Venture Capital & Entrepreneurial Finance
- Machine Learning and Its Applications
- Programming for Financial Engineering
- Data Sciences in Financial Engineering
- Internship Training 1
- Internship Training 2
- Quantitative Investment
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Before you apply
- Background
- Recognised bachelor's degree, normally second-class honours or better, or average grade of at least B (or equivalent professional qualification)
- Tests
- No GRE/GMAT requirement stated; GMAT Verbal (normally at least 21) is one accepted way to show English proficiency
- English
- TOEFL normally at least 79 iBT (550 paper / 213 computer), or IELTS Academic 6.5, or GMAT Verbal 21; waived with a degree from Hong Kong or an English-speaking country
- Other
- Application form, official transcripts, at least two recommendation letters. Graduation needs at least 30 units, including 15 from the compulsory list
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After graduation
- Employers
- China International Capital Corporation, Guotai Junan Securities, Huatai Securities, China Asset Management, China Merchants Bank, Bank of China, ICBC, HSBC, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, ByteDance, Deloitte, PwC
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