MFE Financial Engineering at University of California, Berkeley

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) degree offers two options of study: one-year graduate degree option and our part-time degree option (completed over two-years). Both are offered by the Haas School of Business and cover the same curriculum. Students enrolled in the MFE Program learn to combine finance, mathematics, data science and machine learning, and computer programming skills to optimize decision making.

Faculty: Haas School of Business  |  Department: Walter A. Haas School of Business  |  Duration: 1 year  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

Unit Requirements: 28 Units Curriculum Course List Code Title Units Required courses: MFE 230A Investments and Derivatives 2,3 MFE 230D Derivatives: Quantitative Methods 2 MFE 230E Empirical Methods in Finance 2,3 MFE 230H Financial Risk Measurement and Management 2 MFE 230I Fixed Income Markets 2,3 MFE 230O Applied Finance Project (1 or 3 units.) 1-3 MFE 230P Financial Data Science 2 MFE 230Q Stochastic Calculus with Asset Pricing Applications 2 Select electives from the following (not all courses are offered every year): MFE 230G Equity and Currency Markets 2 MFE 230GA Equity Markets 1 MFE 230GB Currency Markets 1 MFE 230J Financial Innovation with Data Science Applications 1-2 MFE 230K Dynamic Asset Management 2 MFE 230M Asset-Backed Security Markets 2 MFE 230S Behavioral Finance 1,2 MFE 230T Topics in Financial Engineering 1-5 MFE 230V Credit Risk Modeling 2 MFE 230W Accounting and Taxation of Derivatives 1 MFE 230X High Frequency Finance 1,2 MFE 230Y Ethics and Regulation in Financial Markets 1 MFE 230ZA Deep Learning and Applications I 1 MFE 230ZB Deep Learning and Applications II 1 MFE 293 Individually Supervised Study for Graduate Students 1-5

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Business, Engineering & Computer Science.

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