MSc in Financial Mathematics

Programme code: TMFIMA

Department: Mathematics

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules        

Academic year programme (10 months). Students must take five compulsory half-unit courses and optional courses to the value of one-and-a-half units as shown.
There is also a two-week compulsory introductory course MA400 September Introductory Course relating to MA415 and MA417. Students must also take the non-assessed non-credit course MA432 Programming in C++.

Paper

Course number and title

1

MA415

Mathematics of the Black and Scholes Theory (H)

2

MA416

The Foundations of Interest Rate and Credit Risk Theory (H)

3

ST409

Stochastic Processes (H)

4

FM413

Fixed Income Markets (H)

5

MA417

Computational Methods in Finance (H)

6

One of the following:

 

MA402

Game Theory I (H)

MA411

Probability and Measure (H)

MA414

Stochastic Analysis (H)

MA418

Preferences, Optimal Portfolio Choice, and Equilibrium (H)

MA420

Quantifying Risk Modelling and Alternative Markets (H)

ST440

Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance (H)

ST441

Introduction to Markov Processes and Their Applications (H)

7 & 8

The equivalent of one unit from the following:

 

FM402

Financial Risk Analysis (H)

FM404

Forecasting Financial Time Series (H)

FM430

Corporate Finance and Asset Markets

FM441

Derivatives (H)

FM442

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H)

FM445

Portfolio Management (H)

FM472

International Finance (H)

ST422

Time Series (H)

ST426

Applied Stochastic Processes (H)

ST427

Insurance Mathematics (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

ST429

Statistical Methods for Risk Management (H)

ST448

Insurance Risk (H) (not available 2017/18)

 

Further half unit(s) from those courses listed under Paper 6 above.
Further half unit(s) from the MA4** level courses or any other appropriate MSc course, subject to the approval of the Programme Director and Teacher Responsible for the course.

Students can also take MA422 Research Topics in Financial Mathematics, a non-assessed course taken in addition to the required five compulsory half-unit courses and optional courses to the value of one-and-a-half units detailed above.

The Bologna Process facilitates comparability and compatibility between higher education systems across the European Higher Education Area. Some of the School's taught master's programmes are nine or ten months in duration. If you wish to proceed from these programmes to higher study in EHEA countries other than the UK, you should be aware that their recognition for such purposes is not guaranteed, due to the way in which ECTS credits are calculated.

Note for prospective students:
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