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Quantitative Finance Certificate Program

Quantitative Finance Certificate Program. University of Colorado at Boulder. October 21, 2004. What Is Quantitative Finance?. Bridge the gap between quantitative studies and Finance Utilizes existing courses at CU Cooperative effort of Leeds, Economics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.

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Quantitative Finance Certificate Program

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  1. Quantitative Finance Certificate Program University of Colorado at Boulder October 21, 2004

  2. What Is Quantitative Finance? • Bridge the gap between quantitative studies and Finance • Utilizes existing courses at CU • Cooperative effort of Leeds, Economics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

  3. What Types of Jobs? • Fixed income investment analyst • Wall Street Sales & Trading (research/trading): • Fixed income • Derivatives • Pension consultant • Portfolio analyst/manager • Quantitative equity analyst • Treasury analyst

  4. Is There a Market? • These Universities offer graduate programs: • Carnegie Mellon • NYU • Stanford • Chicago • Cal-Berkley • Cornell • Columbia • Purdue • Oklahoma State • Graduates average $100,00 to $130,000 total comp

  5. What Is Required? • About 60% more work in comparison to and average Leeds student for four years, likely with a lower GPA • Very strong mathematics skills • A grade of “B” is required in Calc 1,2,3 • An interest in analysis and “figuring out things” • Depending on the path you choose, maybe more than 8 semesters

  6. Placement Help • Strong support from Career Services • Potential employers will be educated regarding the program • A very high placement percentage expected

  7. Many Paths to Follow • Immediate relevant experience admission to top graduate schools many options • Immediate enrollment in graduate quant program • Phd in Finance or Accounting

  8. Business Curriculum Exceptions • Math Modules are replaced • Calc 1 (APPM 1360 or MATH 1300) replaces 1081 • Linear Algebra (APPM 3310 or MATH 3130) replace 1071 • BCOR 2010 (Business Statistics) is replaced • Any of the 3000/4000 level stats courses listed in our guide • Stats becomes a co-requisite of BCOR 2100 • For regular students, it is a prerequisite

  9. First Three Semesters

  10. Finance and Accounting

  11. Economics Note: you can take ECON 1000/3070/3080 rather than 2010/2020/3070

  12. Systems/Programming • At least one programming course is required • Visual Basic • Java • C++ • Most Leeds students will take SYST 2010 • Visual Basic (used in Excel macros) • Counts as a business elective • An additional course is recommended

  13. Mathematics/Statistics

  14. Minimum Data Analysis

  15. Full Data Analysis

  16. Math Theory Track

  17. Contacts • Jerry Madigan: madigan@colorado.edu • Documents are on my website (find link through the Leeds faculty listing) • Dr. Eric Hughson: Eric.Hughson@colorado.edu • Contacts in Economics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics available at website

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