Financial Mathematics MSc

at University of Leeds

In your first semester you’ll develop a broad understanding of corporate finance and how financial theory relates to practice in business and financial markets. This will put your mathematical studies into context while you develop your skills in applied statistics and probability, machine learning methods and discrete time finance.
 

You’ll build on these skills in topics such as continuous time finance, risk management and computational methods. You’ll also gain specialist knowledge in topics that suit your career ambitions such as risk and insurance, actuarial science and behavioural finance.
 

The course will improve your research skills and allow you to study different research methodologies, including those employed by our own leading academics. This will prepare you for your dissertation – an independent research project on a topic of your choice that you’ll submit by the end of the year.

Modules

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Corporate Finance   
• Learning from Data   
• Introduction to Programming    
• Dissertation in Financial Mathematics    
• Applied Statistics and Probability    
• Discrete Time Finance    
• Continuous Time Finance    
• Risk Management    
• Computations in Finance    

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in a related subject such as finance, economics, mathematics, physics, computing or engineering.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component.
 

Documents and information you need

• A copy of your degree certificate and transcript, or a partial transcript if you’re still studying
• Two academic references
• A personal statement
• An up-to-date CV
• Your approved English Language test* (if applicable)
• A letter of sponsorship, if you need one.

Fees

• UK: £15,750 (total)
• International: £29,750 (total)
   

You have various opportunities open to you as a Financial Mathematics graduate, including quantitative analysis, risk management, investment banking, financial consultancy, insurance, accounting and academia.
 

Previous graduates have gone on to secure employment with a range of organisations including Allianz (London), AstraZeneca, Barclays, CITIC Group, Deloitte, Gaz de France, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopersand the UK Government Actuary’s Department.