Masters Degree Programs with a focus on Quantitative Finance / Derivatives
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Last updated Feb 16, 2013
Masters Degree Programs With a Focus on Quantitative Finance / Derivatives
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| Birkbeck University | MSc Financial Engineering | London, UK | ||
| Birkbeck University | MSc Finance | London, UK | ||
| Birkbeck University | MSc Finance & Commodities | London, UK | Hélyette Geman | |
| Brunel University | MSc Modelling and Management of Risk | Middlesex, UK | ||
| Cambridge University - Judge School | Master of Finance | Cambridge, UK |
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| Cambridge University - Judge School | MPhil Finance (Financial Engineering Specialisation) | Cambridge, UK | ||
| City University - Cass School | MSc Financial Mathematics | London, UK | Laura Ballotta | |
| City University - Cass School | MSc Quantitative Finance (Formerly FEE) | London, UK | Harry Kat | |
| City University - Cass School | MSc Mathematical Finance & Trading | London, UK | ||
| Dublin City University | MSc Financial & Industrial Mathematics | Dublin, Ireland | |
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| Herriot Watt University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Edinburgh, UK | |
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| Imperial College | MSc Mathematics & Finance | London, UK | Mark Davis, Damiano Drigo, Rama Cont, Martijn Pistrorius | |
| Imperial College | MSc Finance | London, UK | Nigel Meade | |
| Imperial College | MSc Risk Management and Financial Engineering | London, UK | Nigel Meade | |
| King's College London | MSc Financial Mathematics | London, UK | |
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| Queen's University Belfast | MSc Finance | Belfast, Ireland | |
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| Leeds University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Leeds, UK | |
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| Leicester University | MSc Financial Mathematics & Computation | Leicester, UK | |
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| Liverpool John Moores University | MSc International Banking & Finance | Liverpool, UK | |
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| London Business School | MSc Finance | London, UK | Stephen Schaefer, Suleyman Basak | |
| London School of Economics | MSc Financial Mathematics | London, UK |
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| Manchester Business School - Manchester University | MSc Finance | Manchester, UK | ||
| Manchester Business School - Manchester University | MSc Finance & Economics | Manchester, UK | ||
| Manchester Business School - Manchester University | MSc Quantitative Finance (Financial Engineering or Risk Management Track) | Manchester, UK | ||
| Manchester Business School - Manchester University | MSc Mathematical Finance | Manchester, UK | ||
| Oxford University - Saïd Business School | MSc Financial Economics | Oxford, UK |
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| Oxford University | MSc Mathematical & Computational Finance | Oxford, UK | Jamil Baz, Riccardo Rebonato, Jeff Dewynne and Elizabeth Whalley | |
| Oxford University | MSc Mathematical Finance | Oxford, UK | Jamil Baz, Riccardo Rebonato, Jeff Dewynne and Elizabeth Whalley | |
| SOAS - Center for Financial and Management Studies | MSc Finance (Quantitative Finance) | London, UK | ||
| University of Birmingham | MSc Mathematical Finance | Birmingham, UK | ||
| University College Dublin - Smurfit School | MSc Finance | Dublin, Ireland | |
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| University College Dublin - Smurfit School | MSc Quantitative Finance | Dublin, Ireland | |
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| University College Dublin - Smurfit School / Institute of Bankers | MSc Risk Management | Dublin, Ireland | |
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| University College London | MSc Financial Mathematics | London, England | |
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| University College London | MSc Financial Risk Management | London, England | |
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| ICMA Centre - University of Reading | MSc Financial Engineering | Reading, UK | Carol Alexander,William Ziemba | |
| ICMA Centre - University of Reading | MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking | Reading, UK | Carol Alexander,William Ziemba | |
| ICMA Centre - University of Reading | MSc Financial Risk Management | Reading, UK | Carol Alexander,William Ziemba | |
| University of Dublin - Trinity College | MSc Finance | Dublin, Ireland | |
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| University of Edinburgh / Herriot Watt University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Edinburgh, UK | |
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| University of Essex | MSc Agent Based Computational Economics & E-Markets | Essex, UK | |
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| University of Essex | MSc Computational Finance | Essex, UK | |
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| University of Essex | MSc Financial Software Engineering | Essex, UK | |
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| University of Exeter | MSc Financial Mathematics | Exeter, UK | |
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| University of Limerick - Kemmy School | MSc Computational Finance | Limerick, Ireland | |
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| University of Westminster | MSc Investment and Risk Finance | London, UK | |
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| University of York | MSc Mathematical Finance | York, UK | |
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| Warwick University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Warwick, UK | |
| American University - Kogod School of Business | MS Finance | Washington, DC | ||
| Baruch College (City University of New York) | MS Financial Engineering | New York, NY | ||
| Bentley College | MS Finance | Waltham, MA | ||
| Boston College - Carroll School | MS Finance | Boston, MA | |
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| Boston University | MS Mathematical Finance | Boston, MA | |
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| Brandeis University | MS Finance | Waltham, MA | |
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| Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School | MS Computational Finance | Pittsburgh, PA | Steven Shreve | |
| Case Western University - Weatherhead School | Master of Science in Management in Finance | Cleveland, OH |
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| Claremont Graduate University - Drucker School | MS Financial Engineering | Claremont, CA | |
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| Claremont University - McKenna School | MS Finance | Claremont, CA | |
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| Clark University | MS Finance | Worchester, MA | ||
| Columbia University | MA Mathematical Finance |
New York, NY | Ioannis Karatzas |
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| Columbia University | MS Financial Engineering |
New York, NY | Emanuel Derman, Mark Broadie, Paul Glasserman, Steven Kou | |
| Cornell University | MSc Engineering (Concentration in Financial Engineering) | Ithaca, NY | Robert Jarrow, Philip Protter, Victoria Averbukh, Sasha Stoikov | |
| Creighton University | Master of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management | Omaha, NB | ||
| DePaul University | MS Computational Finance | Chicago, IL | |
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| DePaul University - Kellstadt School | MS Finance | Chicago, IL | |
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| Fairfield University - Dolan School | MS Finance | Fairfield, CT | |
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| Florida State University | MS Financial Mathematics | Tallahassee, FL | |
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| Fordham University | MS Quantitative Mathematics | New York, NY | |
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| George Washington University | MS Finance | Washington, DC | |
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| Georgia Institute of Technology | MS Quantitative and Computational Finance | Atlanta, GA | |
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| Georgia State University | MSc Mathematical Risk Management | Atlanta, GA | |
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| Golden Gate University | MS Finance with Concentration in Investment Management | San Francisco, CA | |
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| Illinois Institute of Technology | Master of Mathematical Finance | Chicago, IL | ||
| Illinois Institute of Technology - Stuart School | MS Finance | Chicago, IL | Michael Ong | |
| Johns Hopkins University - Carey School | MS Finance | Baltimore, MD | |
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| Kent State University | MS Financial Engineering | Kent, OH | |
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| Lehigh University | MS Analytical Finance | Bethlehem, PA | |
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| Louisiana State University - EJ Ourso School | MS Finance with Minor in Mathematics | Baton Rouge, LA | Don Chance | |
| Loyola College - Sellinger School | MS Finance | Baltimore, MD | ||
| New York University - Courant Institute | MS Mathematical Finance | New York, NY | Marco Avellaneda, Peter Carr, Nassim N. Taleb | |
| North Carolina State University | MS Financial Mathematics | Raleigh, NC | |
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| Oklahoma State University - Spears School | MS Quantitative Financial Economics | Stillwater, OK | |
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| Pepperdine University - Graziadio | Master of Science in Applied Finance | Los Angeles, CA | |
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| Polytechnic Institute of New York University | MS Financial Engineering | New York, NY | |
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| Princeton University | MFin Finance | Princeton, NJ | |
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| Purdue University - Krannert School | MBA with specialisation in Computational Finance | West Lafayette, IN | |
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| Purdue University | MS Mathematics with specialisation in Computational Finance | West Lafayette, IN | |
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| Purdue University | MS Statistics with specialisation in Computational Finance | West Lafayette, IN | |
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| Rutgers University (New Brunswick / Piscataway) | MS Mathematical Finance | Piscataway, NJ | |
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| Rutgers University | MS Quantitative Finance | Newark, NJ | |
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| Seattle University - Albers School | MS Finance | Seattle, WA | |
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| Stanford University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Stanford, CA | Darrell Duffie, Kenneth Singleton | |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | MS Financial Engineering (Technology Track) - Distance Learning |
Hoboken, NJ | |
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| Stony Brook University | MS Financial Mathematics |
Stony Brook, NY | |
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| Syracuse University - Whitman School | MS Finance |
Syracuse, NY | |
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| Texas A&M University | MS Financial Mathematics |
College Station, TX | |
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| Tulane University - Freeman School | MFin Finance | New Orleans, LA / Houston, TX | |
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| UC Berkeley - Haas School | MS Financial Engineering | Berkeley, CA | Mark Rubinstein, Mark Garman, Nils Hakansson | |
| UCLA - Anderson School | MSc Financial Engineering | Los Angeles, CA | Francis Longstaff, Eduardo Schwartz |
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| University of Alabama - Culverhouse | MS Finance | Tuscaloosa, AL | |
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| University of Arizona - Eller | MS Management with Concentration in Finance | Tucson, AZ | ||
| University of Chicago | MS Financial Mathematics | Chicago, IL | Izzy Nelken, Jack Mosevic, Niels Nygaard, Jon Frye | |
| University of Connecticut | Professional MS Applied Financial Mathematics | Storrs, CT | ||
| University of Dayton | Master in Financial Mathematics | Dayton, OH | |
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| University of Denver - Daniels | MS Finance | Denver, CO | |
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| University of Florida - Hough | MS Finance | Gainesville, FL | |
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| University of Hawaii - Shidler | MS Financial Engineering | Honolulu, HI | |
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| University of Houston - Bauer | MS Finance | Houston, TX | |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | MS Finance | Urbana Champaign, IL | |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | MS Financial Engineering | Urbana Champaign, IL | |
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| University of Michigan | MS Financial Engineering | Ann Arbor, MI | |
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| University of Minnesota | Master in Financial Mathematics | Minneapolis, MN | |
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| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | MS Mathematical Finance | Charlotte, NC | |
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| University of Pittsburgh | Professional Science MS Mathematical Finance | Pittsburgh, PA | |
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| University of Rochester - Simon School | MS Business Administration with Concentration in Finance | Rochester, NY | |
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| University of Southern California | MSc Mathematical Finance | Los Angeles, CA | |
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| University of Tulsa | MS Finance |
Tulsa, OK | |
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| University of Washington | MS Computational Finance and Risk Management |
Seattle, WA | |
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| University of Wisconsin - Madison | Quantitative Masters in Finance | Madison, WI | |
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| Vanderbilt University - Owen School | MS Finance (Quantitative Track) | Nashville, TN | |
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| Washington University in St. Louis - Olin School | MS Finance | St. Louis, MO | |
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| Worchester Polytechnic Institute | MSc Financial Mathematics | Worchester, MA | |
| HEC Montreal | MSc Financial Engineering (in French) | Montreal, QB | |
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| McMaster University | MSc in Financial Mathematics | Hamilton, ON | |
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| Simon Fraser University | Master in Financial Risk Management | Vancouver, BC | |
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| Université de Montreal | MSc Financial Mathematics & Computational Finance | Montreal, QB | ||
| Université Laval |
MSc Financial Engineering | Quebec, QB | |
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| University of Toronto | MS Mathematical Finance | Toronto, ON | John Hull, Alan White | |
| University of Waterloo | MQF Master of Quantitative Finance | Waterloo, ON | Phelim Boyle, Ken Vetzal, Adam Kolkiewicz, Carole Bernard | |
| University of Western Ontario | MS Applied Mathematics (Research in Financial Mathematics) | London, ON | |
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| UQAM | MSc Applied Finance | Montreal, QB | |
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| York University | MS Financial Engineering | Toronto, ON | |
| City University | MSc Finance | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
| City University | MSc Banking | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
| City University | MSc Financial Engineering | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
| Hong Kong University (HKU) | MFin Financial Engineering | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Terry Cheuk | |
| Hong Kong University (HKU) | MFin Risk Management | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Terry Cheuk | |
| Hong Kong University of Science of Technology (HKUST) | MSc Investment Management | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
| Hong Kong University of Science of Technology (HKUST) | MSc Financial Analysis | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
| Hong Kong University of Science of Technology (HKUST) | MSc Mathematics (Financial Mathematics & Statistics) | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
| Macquarie University | Masters of Applied Finance | Sydney, Australia | ||
| Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | MSc Financial Engineering | Singapore, Singapore | ||
| National Tsing Hua University | MSc Quantitative Finance | Taipei, Taiwan | ||
| National University of Singapore (NUS) | MSc Financial Engineering | Singapore, Singapore | ||
| National University of Singapore (NUS) | MSc Quantitative Finance | Singapore, Singapore | ||
| Singapore Management University (SMU) | MSc Applied Finance | Singapore, Singapore | ||
| University of Melbourne | MSc Applied Finance | Melbourne, Australia | Mark Joshi | |
| University of New South Wales | MSc Financial Mathematics | Sydney, Australia | ||
| University of South Australia | Master of Quantitative Finance | Adelaide, Australia | ||
| University of Technology Sydney | MSc Quantitative Finance | Sydney, Australia |
| Bar Ilan University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Ramat Gan, Israel | |
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| Bogaziçi University | MSc Financial Engineering | Istanbul, Turkey | |
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| Universidade de Coimbra | Masters of Science in Quantitative Finance | Coimbra, Portugal | |
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| Duisenberg School of Finance | MSc Risk Management | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
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| Duisenberg School of Finance | MSc Corporate Finance & Markets | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
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| Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | MSc Financial Engineering | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
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| EDHEC | MSc Finance | Lille, France |
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| Erasmus University - Rotterdam School of Management | Masters in Financial Management | Rotterdam, Amsterdam |
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| ETH/UZH Zurich | Master of Science in Quantitative Finance | Zurich, Switzerland | Marc Chesney, Paul Embrecht, Philipp J. Schönbucher, Freddy Delbaen, Rajna Gibson, Alexander McNeil | |
| European School of Management (ESCP-EAP) | Specialized Master in Finance | Paris, London, Madrid | |
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| Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | MSc Quantitative Finance | Frankfurt, Germany | Jan Vecer | |
| HEC | MSc International Finance | Paris, France | ||
| Mälardalen University | Master in Financial Engineering | Västerås, Sweden | ||
| International University of Monaco | Masters in Finance | Monaco, Monaco | |
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| ISCTE Business School | Msc Finance | Lisbon, Portugal | |
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| Middle East Technical University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Ankara, Turkey | |
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| Tilburg University | MSc Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science | Tilburg, The Netherlands | |
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| Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | MSc Financial Analysis | Madrid, Spain | |
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| Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia | MSc Stock Markets and Financial Derivatives (Spanish) | Madrid, Spain | |
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| Università Bocconi | MA Quantitative Finance & Risk Management | Milan, Italy | |
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| Universität Konstanz | Masters in Mathematical Finance | Constance, Germany | |
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| Universite de Geneve (HEC) | MSc Finance | Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| Universite de Lausanne (HEC) | MSc Finance | Lausanne, Switzerland | ||
| Universite de Neuchâtel | MSc Finance | Neuchâtel, Switzerland | ||
| Université Panthéon - Assas | Master TFB Finance and Banking | Paris, France |
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| University of St. Gallen | MSc Quantitative Economics and Finance | St. Gallen, Switzerland | |
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| University of Twente | MSc Applied Mathematics and MSc Industrial Engineering & Management (Specialisation in Financial Engineering) | Twente, The Netherlands | |
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| Universiteit van Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School | Master in International Finance (Quantitative Finance Track) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ||
| Universiteit van Amsterdam (Korteweg-de Vries Institute) With Vrije Universteit & Universiteit Utrecht | MSc Stochastics and Financial Mathematics | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
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| Università di Torino | MSc Quantitative Finance | Torino, Italy | |
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| University of Piraeus (in Greek) | MSc in Banking and Financial Management | Piraeus, Greece | |
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| Vienna Institute of Technology | Masters in Finance |
Vienna, Austria | |
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| Warsaw University | Masters in Quantitative Finance |
Warsaw, Poland | |
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| Brazilian Mathematics University (Portuguese) | MSc Mathematical Methods in Finance | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
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| Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (Portuguese) | MBA Derivatives | São Paulo, Brazil | |
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| Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (Portuguese) | MBA Pricing & Risk | São Paulo, Brazil | |
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| Escola de Economia de Sao Pao (Portuguese) | Professional Masters in Quantitative Finance | São Paulo, Brazil | |
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| North-West University | MSc Financial Mathematics | Potchestroom, South Africa | |
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| North-West University | MSc Quantitative Risk Management | Potchestroom, South Africa | |
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| Universidad de Belgrano |
MA Financial Engineering | Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
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| University of Capetown | MSc Mathematics of Finance | Capetown, South Africa | |
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| University of Pretoria | MSc Financial Engineering | Pretoria, South Africa | ||
| University of Pretoria | MSc Mathematics of Finance | Pretoria, South Africa | ||
| University of Stellenbosch |
MComm in Financial Risk Management | Stellenbosch, South Africa | |
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| University of the Free State |
MSc Mathematical Statistics (Risk Analaysis) |
Bloemfontein, South Africa | |
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| University of the Witwatersrand |
MSc Mathematics of Finance |
Johannesburg, South Africa | ||
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