BSc in Financial Engineering (BSc FE)
A four-year finance-and-technology major (2024 curriculum for international students) combining core finance and economics with Python, data structures, AI in finance, risk management and derivatives, plus an internship and thesis.
What you’ll study
Core
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Probability and Statistics
- Financial Accounting
- Political Economics
- Data Management and Databases
- Prescriptive Decision Analytics
- Econometrics
- Data Analysis and Data Mining
- Corporate Finance
- Data Structures and Financial Applications
- Financial Investments
- Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications in Finance
- Financial Modeling and Analysis
- Financial Risk Management
- Options, Futures and Financial Derivatives
- Internship
- Practice of Financial Theory
- Thesis
Electives
- Principles of FinTech
- Ordinary Differential Equations B
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation I
- Life Contingencies Practicum
- Investment and Risk Management
- Cases in FinTech I
- Managerial Accounting
- Commercial Bank
- Economics of Money and Banking
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Applied Stochastic Processes
- International Finance
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Before you apply
- Background
- Admission as an international undergraduate; major declared after year one or two
- Maths
- Calculus I and II; Linear Algebra
- Programming
- Introductory programming course (Python, Java, C or Matlab)
- Other
- Major declaration prerequisites: Calculus I/II, Linear Algebra, and (for end-of-year-two declaration) an introductory programming course; department may select by suitability if oversubscribed
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After graduation
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Curriculum PDF is dated 2024 and describes the major in the text as Financial Technology; I could not confirm current intake on a live admissions page. Programme code 020302. General education includes physics, chemistry, Chinese and English requirements.
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.