b'GRADUATEPROGRAMS68Students100%Job Rate#1In Starting SalaryMASTER IN FINANCEThe distinctive feature of our interdisciplinary Master in Finance program is its strongemphasis on financial and monetary economics, relying on analytical and computationalmethods. Graduates of our program have a solid understanding of the fundamentalquantitative tools of economic theory, probability, statistics, optimization, computerscience, and machine learning, all of which are vital in the financial industry. There nowexists a body of knowledge that is widely agreed to be essential for the proper analysis andmanagement of financial securities, portfolios, and the financial decisions of firms. A driving force behind these developments is an exchange of ideas between academia andthe financial industry, a collaboration that is the closest parallel in the social sciences to theacademic-private sector interactions routinely seen in engineering and the appliedsciences. The Master in Finance program prepares students for a wide spectrum of careersin the financial industry, ranging from quantitative trading strategies, risk management, andfinancial engineering to quantitative asset management and macroeconomic and financialforecasting.9'