UT Dallas Master of Science in Financial Engineering and Risk Management

[Andy Nguyen]

Just ran across this program while googling for "financial engineering". Seems to be a new program enrolling students for 2018. I've reached out to them and will share what I learn about it.
MS Financial Engineering and Risk Management | Naveen Jindal School of Management

@Ken Abbott would love to hear your take on the courses offered from the risk management perspective. Thanks
MS Financial Engineering and Risk Management | Naveen Jindal School of Management

 

[Ken Abbott]

Just ran across this program while googling for "financial engineering". Seems to be a new program enrolling students for 2018. I've reached out to them and will share what I learn about it.
MS Financial Engineering and Risk Management | Naveen Jindal School of Management

@Ken Abbott would love to hear your take on the courses offered from the risk management perspective. Thanks
MS Financial Engineering and Risk Management | Naveen Jindal School of Management

Andy, I took a good look, but the course descriptions are way, way too vague for me to make an assessment. The way the courses are described could easily have been done generically, so it’s hard to see whether they cover academic or practical material. I would need to see a syllabus.

 

[bigbadwolf]

Seems to be another hastily cobbled together "me-too" program of generic and junk courses, some of which seem to have no relationship to quant work at all. And the requirements to enter the "program" are rock bottom -- i.e., this is quite obviously meant to be another cash cow for the school.

 

[tkfriend]

Seems to be another hastily cobbled together "me-too" program of generic and junk courses, some of which seem to have no relationship to quant work at all. And the requirements to enter the "program" are rock bottom -- i.e., this is quite obviously meant to be another cash cow for the school.

I've been meaning to ask, are you employed as a quant, bigbadwolf?

 

[pingu]

I've been meaning to ask, are you employed as a quant, bigbadwolf?

does it matter?

 

[tkfriend]

does it matter?

just wondering

 

[Mikey V]

I was thinking alike after reading about the general course descriptions

 

[faslone]

Anymore thoughts on the UT Dallas program?

 

[Abhijay Shukla]

Can anyone detailed us on pros and cons of UTD program?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Looks like the Financial Engineering and Risk Management program is gone and replaced by Master of Science in Financial Technology and Analytics

Master of Science in Financial Technology and Analytics | Naveen Jindal School of Management

Pursue your Master of Science in Financial Technology and Analytics at the UT Dallas Jindal School of Management, get hands-on training in current technologies

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