Paper 1

ST460 Statistical Inference: Principles and Methods (0.5) #

Paper 2

ST436 Financial Statistics (0.5) # and ST458 Financial Statistics II (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.5 unit(s) from the following:

ST405 Unsupervised Machine Learning and Multivariate Data Analysis (0.5)

ST409 Stochastic Processes (0.5) #

ST411 Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis (0.5) #

ST416 Multilevel Modelling (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

ST418 Advanced Time Series Analysis (0.5) #

ST429 Statistical Methods for Risk Management (0.5) #

ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) #

ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining (0.5) #

ST444 Computational Data Science (0.5) #

ST445 Managing and Visualising Data (0.5) #

ST446 Distributed Computing for Big Data (0.5) #

ST449 Artificial Intelligence (0.5) #

ST451 Bayesian Machine Learning (0.5) #

ST454 Bayesian Data Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

ST455 Reinforcement Learning (0.5) #

ST456 Deep Learning (0.5) #

ST457 Graph Data Analytics and Representation Learning (0.5) #

ST459 Quantum Computation and Information (0.5) #

ST461 Mathematics of Market Microstructure (0.5)

ST463 Stochastic Simulation, Training, and Calibration (0.5) #

EC402 Econometrics (1.0) #

FM402 Financial Risk Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

FM413 Fixed Income Markets (0.5) #

FM429 Asset Markets A (0.5) #

FM441 Derivatives (0.5) #

FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (0.5) #

MA407 Algorithms and Computation (0.5) #

MA415 The Mathematics of the Black and Scholes Theory (0.5)

MA416 The Foundations of Interest Rate and Credit Risk Theory (0.5)

MA417 Computational Methods in Finance (0.5) #

MA427 Nonlinear Optimisation and Applications (0.5) #

MA435 Machine Learning in Financial Mathematics (0.5) #

MY456 Survey Methodology (0.5) #

MY457 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (0.5) #

MY459 Computational Text Analysis and Large Language Models (0.5) #

MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5)

Or other non ST course(s), with permission.

The total value of all non ST courses should not exceed one unit.

Paper 4

ST499 Dissertation (1.0)