MFE Programs in Canada

[blrichard]

After these years, it appears Canada only have a relatively few master programs

Home - Master in Financial Mathematics - Faculty of Science - McMaster University

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MMF – Master of Mathematical Finance Program at University of Toronto – MMF – Master of Mathematical Finance Program at University of Toronto

www.mmf.utoronto.ca

Master of Quantitative Finance (MQF) | Statistics and Actuarial Science

MQF program

uwaterloo.ca

Master of science (MSc) – Financial Engineering | Programs

Leverage your passion for mathematics, programming and finance to build a fascinating career.

www.hec.ca

They've got programs at UdeM, UAlberta and UCalgary in quantitative finance as well. There's also one called "Financial Analytics" at Trent University but that one's not very well known. I think it often tends to get absorbed into actuarial science, or if actuarial science isn't offered on its own either, it gets absorbed into statistics. Western Ontario for example has a "Financial Modelling" stream in their Statistics MSc. There's very few professors I can think of in Canada who do research in mathematical finance but not actuarial science. I gather this is fairly unique about the USA, in most of Europe it seems that actuarial science and mathematical finance are rolled in together frequently as well.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

They've got programs at UdeM, UAlberta and UCalgary in quantitative finance as well. There's also one called "Financial Analytics" at Trent University but that one's not very well known. I think it often tends to get absorbed into actuarial science, or if actuarial science isn't offered on its own either, it gets absorbed into statistics. Western Ontario for example has a "Financial Modelling" stream in their Statistics MSc. There's very few professors I can think of in Canada who do research in mathematical finance but not actuarial science. I gather this is fairly unique about the USA, in most of Europe it seems that actuarial science and mathematical finance are rolled in together frequently as well.

These are useful info. Thank you.
I did a quick search for those and it seems like UdeM and Ualberta are bachelor degrees, not masters.
Calgary has a master degree and a PhD program.

MATH Future Students Graduate Programs Mathematical Finance MSc

Master of Science (MSc)

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MATH Future Students Graduate Programs Mathematical Finance PhD

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

science.ucalgary.ca

 

[blrichard]

These are useful info. Thank you.
I did a quick search for those and it seems like UdeM and Ualberta are bachelor degrees, not masters.
Calgary has a master degree

MATH Future Students Graduate Programs Mathematical Finance MSc

Master of Science (MSc)

science.ucalgary.ca

UdeM: Master's in Mathematical and Computational Finance - Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle - Université de Montréal
UAlberta: Program: Master of Science with a specialization in Mathematical Finance (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) - University of Alberta - Modern Campus Catalog™
UdeM seems to be a program in French.
The UAlberta one seems to be a specialization within its Math&Stats MSc. Not sure if that counts by QuantNet standards as a MFE? Alberta and Calgary also have PhD specializations in quantitative finance, which I gather is fairly rare even in the US?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Yes, there are a handful of PhD programs in the US specializing in financial engineering and its similar names. Here are top of my head

https://www.math.fsu.edu/finmath/

Ph.D. Financial Engineering

www.stevens.edu

There were more in the past but many are long gone.

Financial Engineering PhD program?

I will apply for graduate schools in USA this year, and I did some internet search for Financial Engineering programs. My concern is that there are few programs that offer FE ph.d, instead most FE programs offer MS only. I want to get ph.d, because I like to study and I want to use deepest...

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[QAnonOG]

This thread great to see as I'm canadian myself and had a similar question.

I graudated from the University of Waterloo, can't say too much about the other programs, but what I've seen from my time there it's become quite the powerhouse in terms of being a factory for Software Engineers. Lots of my friends also ended up working for HFT firms back when I was there, mainly for SWE Roles, but for some trader roles as well.

If your considering a masters, I'm not sure if its available, but try to find a coop program within it, I know jane street and citadel both like to hire from waterloo, they're job postings are always on the internal dashboard for fulltime roles.

But in my personal expereince as a Cnaadian, I would go for University of Waterloo, then University of Toronto.
As for the other programs I can't say too much about the name value behind it as I'm not super familiar with their curriculums/output.

hope this helps any canadians reading this post!