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Distinguished by its mathematically rigorous course content and direct applications to industry, WPI’s Professional MS in Financial Mathematics program will prepare you for a successful career in the financial services industry.
Our program offers unique courses that bridge strong theoretical mathematical knowledge with practical, real-world projects, enabling you to gain industry-level experience in the classroom.
You’ll also have the opportunity to learn from and work alongside internationally renowned faculty members who are spurring advances in topics including portfolio optimization, liquidity, credit and systemic risk, and numerical methods of stochastic and partial differential equations.
Through core financial mathematics courses you’ll build a strong foundation in concepts and processes involved in arbitrage-based pricing of derivative securities and fixed income securities, based on a sound understanding of measure-theoretic probability theory and stochastic processes. You’ll also take advanced courses that give you in-depth knowledge and hands-on practice in computational methods in finance, portfolio management, and market and credit risk modeling.
You will complement your studies with courses in financial management, information technology, or computer science, as well as a professional skills development seminar and capstone experience involving a project, practicum, or advanced course.
A capstone project will enable you to synthesize and apply your financial mathematics knowledge and skills in one of three ways:
You’ll often find our graduate students working side-by-side in our dedicated Financial Math Lab, which features dual core workstations with dual monitors and industry-standard software. Graduate students also have access to a broad spectrum of high-end robust hardware and commercial software in additional facilities in the department and on campus.
Benefiting from WPI's location at the center of the Boston‐Hartford financial corridor and our program’s focus on real-world industry applications, you will have many career options. Our graduates find success with New England asset management and insurance companies, U.S. and global financial companies, and leading developers of financial technology products.
