Universities / Royal Holloway, University of London
MSc Computational Finance (MSc CF)
A computer-science-led computational finance masters pairing derivative pricing and portfolio theory with machine learning, data analysis and programming. Heavy optional menu in ML, deep learning, big data and databases, with MATLAB, R and SQL skills.
What you’ll study
Core
- Data Analysis
- Foundations of Finance
- Investment and Portfolio Management
- Ethics in Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence
- Individual Project
- Advanced Topics Seminar
- Academic Integrity
Electives
- Machine Learning
- Principles of Computation and Programming
- Methods of Computational Finance
- Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Online Machine Learning
- Large-scale Data Storage and Processing
- Business Intelligence Systems, Infrastructures and Technologies
- Visualisation and Exploratory Analysis
- Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives
- Private Equity and Corporate Governance
- Databases
- Advanced Distributed Systems and Communication Networks
- Artificial Intelligence Principles and Techniques
- Foundations of Corporate Finance
- Deep Learning
- Autonomous Intelligent Systems
- Natural Language Processing
- Reinforcement Learning
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Before you apply
- Background
- 2:2 or equivalent in computing/computer science/engineering/AI; maths, economics, physics and other engineering considered if strong maths and programming content; professional experience considered
- Maths
- strong mathematics content in prior degree
- Programming
- programming modules in prior degree
- English
- IELTS 6.5 overall, no subscore below 5.5
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After graduation
- Employers
- Amazon, American Express, JP Morgan, UBS, Google, Microsoft, EY, PwC, Shell, Rolls Royce
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