MSc in Quantitative Finance
The MSc in Quantitative Finance is a one-year full-time Masters programme designed to enable students to acquire, enhance and apply advanced analytical, problem solving and technical skills to the analysis of risk and return in a range of financial institutions and specialist departments in large corporations.
The programme provides students with the necessary skills and relevant knowledge and understanding to pursue a career in banking and finance.
Students on the MSc in Quantitative Finance acquire knowledge of the problems and issues in the banking and finance sectors, and develop a number of transferable skills. These skills include using computer-based sources of financial information, and applying this information in various contexts such as: data analysis and forecasting; computer programming; using statistical and econometrics software; and financial analysis.
The MSc in Quantitative Finance is taught jointly by the Economics, Accounting and Finance and Management Science departments within Lancaster University Management School, and the Mathematics and Statistics Department within Lancaster University's Faculty of Science and Technology.
MSc Quantitative Finance : News Sheet June 2011
MSc Quantitative Finance: News Sheet March 2011
Economics Postgraduate Newsletter 2011
A perspective from a MSc Quantitative Finance 2010/11 student at Lancaster University
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