Universities / University of Glasgow (Adam Smith Business School)
MSc Financial Risk Management (MSc FRM)
A risk-focused masters on quantifying several types of financial risk, combining computational finance, time series and derivatives markets, finishing with a dissertation.
What you’ll study
Core
- Applied Computational Finance
- Applied Time Series & Forecasting
- Financial Markets, Securities and Derivatives
- Financial Risk Analytics
Electives
- Agent-based Modelling in Finance
- Basic Econometrics
- Corporate Finance and Investment
- Financial Services
- High-frequency Trading
- Investments & Portfolio Management
- Machine Learning in Finance with Python
- Network Analysis
- Real Estate Economics & Finance
Source: gla.ac.uk ↗
Before you apply
- Background
- 2:1 Honours (or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Physics or another highly mathematical/quantitative discipline
- English
- IELTS Academic 6.5 overall, no subtest below 6.0
Source: gla.ac.uk ↗
After graduation
- Typical first roles
- Risk management, Asset management, Hedge funds, Central banks
- Employers
- Morgan Stanley, HSBC, KPMG, Royal Bank of Scotland
Source: gla.ac.uk ↗
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