Aims of the course

The programme aims:

to provide graduates with a strong mathematical background and the capacity to apply their expertise to the solution of real finance problems.
to equip students with an understanding of the fundamentals of mathematical finance: mathematical models, techniques, numerical methods and data analysis, and enable them to source more advanced material relating to these topics.
to develop problem solving skills, from the formulation of problems from descriptions in financial language, through mathematical and/or statistical analysis and the design of appropriate numerical schemes and/or statistics algorithms, to the presentation and interpretation of results.
to lay the foundation for further research or for a career as a quantitative analyst into a financial or other institution