MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) (LSE and Fudan)
Programme Code: TMFSEC
Department: Statistics
For students starting this programme of study in 2022/23
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Paper |
Course number, title (unit value) | |
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Year 1 |
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Paper 1 |
ST425 Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and Computation (1.0) # |
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Paper 2 |
ST422 Time Series (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) and ST436 Financial Statistics (0.5) # | |
Paper 3 |
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Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: | ||
ST405 Unsupervised Machine Learning and Multivariate Data Analysis (0.5) |
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ST411 Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis (0.5) # |
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ST433 Computational Methods in Finance and Insurance (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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ST439 Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST440 Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST444 Computational Data Science (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST457 Graph Data Analytics and Representation Learning (0.5) # |
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MY459 Computational Text Analysis and Large Language Models (0.5) # |
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MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5) |
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Paper 4 |
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Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: | ||
ST405 Unsupervised Machine Learning and Multivariate Data Analysis (0.5) |
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ST411 Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis (0.5) # |
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ST426 Applied Stochastic Processes (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST433 Computational Methods in Finance and Insurance (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) |
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ST439 Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST440 Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST444 Computational Data Science (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST457 Graph Data Analytics and Representation Learning (0.5) # |
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FM404 Advanced Financial Economics (0.5) |
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FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (0.5) # |
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MA415 The Mathematics of the Black and Scholes Theory (0.5) |
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MA416 The Foundations of Interest Rate and Credit Risk Theory (0.5) |
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MY457 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (0.5) # |
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MY459 Computational Text Analysis and Large Language Models (0.5) # |
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MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5) |
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Footnotes
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
A: Paper 4: Or other non-ST course(s), with permission.
The total value of all non-ST courses should not exceed one unit.
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.
Progress rules to proceed to year in Fudan:
Students must pass at least three out of four units including the core courses ST425 (at paper 1) and ST422 and ST436 (at paper 2).
Students that have a one unit fail (but not a Bad Fail) including in any course taken as paper 1 or 2 will need to achieve compensation marks in their other courses in order to progress to Fudan as follows: a mark of 60 in at least one of the three passed units or an aggregate of 330 in those three passed units. A student that has failed any of the core courses ST425, ST422 and ST436 and can progress is still required to pass that failed course in order to be eligible for the award of the degree.
Any student with a fail that is unable to achieve the compensation rules as above must resit the failed course and pass in order to progress.
Any student who receives a Bad Fail mark cannot progress until that Bad Fail has been successfully resat and they then meet the progression rules outlined above. A Bad Fail mark cannot be compensated by other marks.
Students have one opportunity only to resit a failed LSE course.
The full programme must be successfully completed in order to be awarded the double degree. This means students who complete the year at LSE but go on to fail to progress after exhausting all of their attempts or are unable to complete the year at Fudan cannot be awarded an interim degree. I.e. they must successfully complete both LSE and Fudan programmes to achieve an overall award.
Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.