Current MS Requirements

REQUIRED COURSES
CFRM 501 (4)
Investment Science
CFRM 504 (4)
Options and Other Derivatives
CFRM 502 (4)
Financial Data Science
CFRM 505 (4)
Monte Carlo Methods in Finance
CFRM 503 (4)
Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management
CFRM 509 (2)
Ethics in the Finance Profession
One of the following two courses:
CFRM 506 (4)
Financial Data Access & Analysis with SQL, VBA, and Excel
CFRM 507 (4)
Optimization Methods in Finance

 

ELECTIVE COURSES
CFRM 500 (variable credit)
Special Studies in Computational Finance
CFRM 520 (4)
Financial Software Development and Integration with C++
CFRM 521 (4)
Machine Learning for Finance
CFRM 522 (4)
Introduction to Trading Systems
CFRM 523 (4)
Advanced Trading Systems
CFRM 524 (4)
Advanced C++ for Finance
CFRM 525 (4)
FinTech, Blockchains, & Cryptocurrencies
CFRM 530 (4)
Fixed Income Analytics
CFRM 531 (4)
Portfolio Performance Analysis & Benchmarking
CFRM 532 (2)
Endowment and Institutional Investment Management
CFRM 540 (4)
Risk in Financial Institutions
CFRM 541 (4)
Quantitative Risk Management
CFRM 542 (4)
Credit Risk Management
CFRM 550 (4)
Stochastic Calculus for Quantitative Finance
CFRM 580 (2)
Energy Markets Analytics and Derivatives
CFRM 586 (4)
Financial Time Series Forecasting Methods
AMATH 582 (5)
Computational Methods for Data Analysis
AMATH 583 (5)
High Performance Scientific Computing
CFRM 600
Independent Research or Study
CFRM 700 (variable credits, minimum of 9 credits required) Master’s Thesis