- Byline
- The UC Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) program is offered by the Berkeley Haas School of Business. Established in 2000, this one-year program commences each spring.
- Location
- Berkeley, CA 94720
- Application deadline
- Four rounds, generally January, March, July, and October
- Yearly Ranking Data
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The program was launched in 2001.
Your entire Berkeley MFE experience is designed to give you the knowledge, experience, and connections you'll need to immediately launch a successful career in finance and data science. Fintech, blockchain, and artificial intelligence are just a few of the technologies disrupting the finance sector and our location in the heart of the Bay Area puts you at the center of all the amazing innovation taking place.
The Berkeley MFE Program at the Haas School of Business provides a depth of study in finance that reaches beyond basic business concepts to teach you how to combine modern portfolio theory with computational methods. Through the coursework, financial practice seminars, and tailored industry projects, you'll have many opportunities to learn firsthand how to apply these theories and methods to real-world situations. You will also benefit from the quality of students, breadth of activities, and network of impressive alumni contacts inherent to a top-ranked business school and a world-class university.
From your first day on campus, you benefit from access to a team of MFE-focused career specialists whose connections run both deep and wide across industries and around the globe. You also become part of the Haas Alumni Network— over 41,000 leaders influencing the future of business and finance. No matter which direction your career takes you, you can rely on the Berkeley Haas alumni network to connect you to the local community. Our students have gone on to work at companies like Goldman Sachs, Google, and Citadel to name a few.
Your entire Berkeley MFE experience is designed to give you the knowledge, experience, and connections you'll need to immediately launch a successful career in finance and data science. Fintech, blockchain, and artificial intelligence are just a few of the technologies disrupting the finance sector and our location in the heart of the Bay Area puts you at the center of all the amazing innovation taking place.
The Berkeley MFE Program at the Haas School of Business provides a depth of study in finance that reaches beyond basic business concepts to teach you how to combine modern portfolio theory with computational methods. Through the coursework, financial practice seminars, and tailored industry projects, you'll have many opportunities to learn firsthand how to apply these theories and methods to real-world situations. You will also benefit from the quality of students, breadth of activities, and network of impressive alumni contacts inherent to a top-ranked business school and a world-class university.
From your first day on campus, you benefit from access to a team of MFE-focused career specialists whose connections run both deep and wide across industries and around the globe. You also become part of the Haas Alumni Network— over 41,000 leaders influencing the future of business and finance. No matter which direction your career takes you, you can rely on the Berkeley Haas alumni network to connect you to the local community. Our students have gone on to work at companies like Goldman Sachs, Google, and Citadel to name a few.