Financial Engineering (MS) at University of Southern California

A multidisciplinary program training students with engineering, applied mathematics or physics backgrounds to apply mathematical and engineering tools to finance. It involves the Viterbi School of Engineering, the Marshall School of Business and the Dornsife Department of Economics, and addresses derivative securities valuation, strategic planning, dynamic investment strategies and risk management.

Faculty: Viterbi School of Engineering (with Marshall School of Business and Dornsife Department of Economics)  |  Department: Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering  |  Duration: Minimum 33 units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

What you will study

Six required courses (Corporate Finance, Financial Engineering, Probability for Electrical and Computer Engineers, Stochastic Processes for Financial Engineering, Mathematics and Tools for Financial Engineering, Directed Research) plus a practicum, three finance electives (e.g. Hedge Funds, Quantitative Investing, Trading and Exchanges) and one course in optimization, simulation or stochastic systems such as Machine Learning or Financial Analytics.

Career pathways

Roles of interest include investment and commercial banks, trading companies, hedge funds, insurance companies, corporate risk management and regulatory agencies.

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