UNC Charlotte’s Master of Science in Mathematical Finance program has been ranked No. 20 in the nation in the 2016 Master of Financial Engineering Program Rankings.
This is the third national ranking for the Mathematical Finance program, marking an improvement from last year’s ranking at No. 25. The rankings by The Financial Engineer are calculated based on a series of factors, including average GRE scores, starting salaries and bonuses, undergraduate GPA, acceptance rates, and the number of employed graduates.
UNC Charlotte’s Mathematical Finance program was developed in collaboration between the Departments of Finance and Economics in the Belk College of Business and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Located in the second largest financial center in the U.S., the program is designed to prepare students with the quantitative skills to pursue careers in finance.
“The Mathematical Finance program continues to earn recognition as an outstanding program that is competitive at the national level,” said Yuanan Diao, chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. “Students learn from faculty in the three departments and also benefit from strong partnerships with leading companies and alumni in the region.”
The program is designed to prepare students to pursue careers in finance. Increasingly, financial institutions, investment banks, and commodities firms rely upon highly sophisticated mathematical models to identify, measure, and manage risk. These models require professionals with extensive skills in both finance and mathematics. Students take courses from all three departments in an integrated curriculum and may use electives to tailor the program to their specific interests.
The Financial Engineer publishes the most comprehensive rankings for financial engineering, financial mathematics, quantitative finance, computational finance, and mathematical finance graduate programs in the United States.
