Masters (Coursework)
The Master of Mathematics and Quantitative Finance provides the opportunity to acquire the detailed specialised knowledge and the professional competency required to work as a quantitative finance analyst in the modern finance industry, performing at the cutting edge of the discipline. This program enables participants without, or with limited quantitative background to undertake an internationally recognised quantitative finance program through a fully integrated postgraduate program comprising mathematics, statistics and computer programming, before advancing to focussed skills and knowledge in financial economics, stochastic analysis, financial mathematics, numerical and computational methods.
Career opportunities for graduates include quantitative analyst, risk analyst, quantitative structurer, quantitative developer, forecaster, trader, investment analyst and financial engineer across investment banks, trading banks, hedge funds, and investment management firms, consulting companies, energy and mining companies, regulatory bodies and government organisations
The course comprises 96 credit points of core subjects.