Financial Mathematics Program Degree Requirements

The professional M.S. Degree Program in Financial Mathematics is a 30-credit hour program. The curriculum consists of the following components:

  1. 6 credits from required foundation courses:
    • MA 503 Analysis I
    • MA 540 Probability and Mathematical Statistics I
  2. 9 credits from core financial mathematics courses:
    • MA 571 Financial Mathematics I
    • MA 572 Financial Mathematics II
    • MA 573 Computational Methods of Financial Mathematics
    • MA 574 Portfolio Valuation and Risk Management
  3. 6 graduate course credits from an elective from the graduate courses within the Mathematical Sciences Department
    BS/MS students can count undergraduate credits MA 4213 Risk Theory, MA 4235 Mathematical Optimization, MA 4237 Stochastic Models of Operations Research, MA 4473 Partial Differential Equations, MA 4632 Probability and Mathematical Statistics II towards electives
  4. 6 credit block in one of the following complementary areas outside of the Mathematical Sciences Department: Financial management, Information technology, or Computer Science.
    • students with a degree or substantial work experience in one of the above complementary areas can substitute them with other courses subject to prior approval by the graduate committee)
    • BS/MS students can count suitable undergraduate courses towards the complementary area requirement
  5. 3 graduate credits for a project originating in the financial industry
  6. MA 562A and MA 562B Professional Master's Seminar (for no credit)
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