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Master in Financial Engineering (MFE)
A two-year EPFL master with compulsory foundations and advanced finance modules, elective breadth (blockchain, big data, venture capital) and a six-month industry internship ending in the thesis.
What you’ll study
Core
- Introduction to finance
- Accounting for finance
- Introduction to econometrics
- Convex optimization
- Probability & stochastic calculus
- Derivatives
- Investments
- Interest rate and credit risk models
- Machine learning in finance
- Quantitative risk management
- Advanced derivatives
Electives
- Financial applications of blockchains and distributed ledgers
- Financial big data
- Financial intermediation
- Venture capital
Source: epfl.ch ↗
Before you apply
- Background
- EPFL Bachelor's in science/engineering, or equivalent non-EPFL science/engineering or economics Bachelor's with excellent records; extra credits may be required
- Maths
- analysis; linear algebra; differential and integral calculus; statistics and probability
- Programming
- At least one of C, C++, Python, Java, Matlab, Mathematica
Source: epfl.ch ↗
After graduation
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Sectors listed: banking, hedge funds, consulting, commodities, asset management, insurance, fintech. No placement data published. Tuition on EPFL fees page, not retrieved.
Checked 6 November 2026 against the sources linked on this page. Fees, units and requirements change each year, so confirm them on the programme’s website before applying.
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