Financial Engineering NUIM???

jhn_noln

Does anybody know if this course is now gone?? i heard it was replaced just by a masters in Finance!!! does anybody know any other similar courses with emphasis on the quantitative side of financE? thanks

ixus

In fairness, you should look at each university and go to postgrad section and look at their courses.

A bit lazy not investigating yourself. Here are two to start you off.


Limerick

Smurfit

ixus

Just came across this which may be of some help

blucey

and then there is limerick and Trinity and UCC....


What exactly are you looking for in a postgraduate degree in finance? If you really really really reallly want to be a quant, do a MSc in some heavy quant subject (electrical engineering or physics for example) then do the CQF.
On dudder hand...if what you want is a decent masters in finance, do a bit of research on the options each course gives you, their pro's and con's.
PM me if you want more information.

BTW - the NUIM course reflects a name change. Thats all....

LeixlipRed

MA in Financial and Industrial Maths in DCU. Can do nearly all finance in that course and mostly related to Quants. Will have to do some non Finance stuff too though

jhn_noln

ya but coming from an accounting and finance background i dont know if i would get into that course (financial and industrial maths)??????

blucey

jhn_noln wrote: »

ya but coming from an accounting and finance background i dont know if i would get into that course (financial and industrial maths)??????

If you dont have a strong math background then you should take a more general approach, and get some experience. Then later see how you fare. Its not all rocket science - look at the CFA for example.

Red Alert

ixus wrote: »

A bit lazy not investigating yourself. Here are two to start you off.

Please don't attack other posters - thanks!

ixus

Red Alert wrote: »

Please don't attack other posters - thanks!

It hardly constitutes an attack :rolleyes:

The OP Is looking for advice on courses similar to the course at NUIM while supplying little if any additional information.....how is anyone here supposed to help him/her?

What's the OP's background/interest?
What does the OP want to get from such a course?
Is it Republic of Ireland specific?

Simple pieces of information like this would enable other users to help him/her.

Saying that, I went out of my way and provided three links to get them started.

There are not that many universities in this country, making it relatively easy to investigate what they offer.

The OP could then come back and ask for opinions on the courses and get some useful information.

And, up to now, the OP's response hasn't really allowed any posters to help him/her much further. IF lazy isn't an appropriate term, I don't know what is?!

I'm currently doing one of the courses that may interest the OP and have a good few friends who've attended other potential courses so I could provide some useful information from the student perspective.
You then have another poster who can provide information from the teaching perspective.

I took the time to try and help the OP, the least he/she could do would be provide some relevant information that could allow posters to help them.

@ The OP - If you want some real help and have a genuine interest in a similar course please find the energy to provide some background as to why/what you're looking for.

@ Red Alert: Please don't be so ignorant next time - thanks!

blucey

if its any interest, TCD are holding an open evening on Tue re the MSc in Finance.

DJDC

The real quat finance roles are based in london, NY and HK. I doubt there is many quant front office roles in Ireland to be honest. Therefore the best courses will be those based in/near these centres of finance. The 2 best in the UK are warwick and Imperials MSc in Financial Maths.In the US, columbia and NYU have good courses.

The maths can be quite intense, if you can compentently answer these questions, and have a decent undergrad, then go for it.

http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/postgrad/financial_maths/FinMaths.pdf

If you are determined to study/work in Ireland, then trinity is the best option based purely on its international reputuation.

blucey

DJDC wrote: »

The real quat finance roles are based in london, NY and HK. I doubt there is many quant front office roles in Ireland to be honest. Therefore the best courses will be those based in/near these centres of finance. The 2 best in the UK are warwick and Imperials MSc in Financial Maths.In the US, columbia and NYU have good courses.

The maths can be quite intense, if you can compentently answer these questions, and have a decent undergrad, then go for it.

http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/postgrad/financial_maths/FinMaths.pdf

If you are determined to study/work in Ireland, then trinity is the best option based purely on its international reputuation.

Good link.
However, we need to remember that there are many overlapping issues going on here.
The above is Financial Math (a way of looking at financial problems through a mathematical lens). That is NOT the same as Mathematical Finance (which is slightly more orientated to solutions and finance issues). Nor is the same as Quantitative Finance (looking to code and solve as well as describe in practical as well as mathematically sensible terms financial issues). Finally, there is Finance.
Now, my strong advice is that people start with a decent understanding of Finance. Too often we have mathematical representations of issues that are not terribly useful. For example, 2.4 in the linkage is a nice question. But it wont help us much if we dont realise that correlations really arent that useful in times of crisis (a la Forbes and Rigobon). So, start with Finance, then do some mathematical courses.
There is also the fact that a degree or training in a broad finance area will be much more portable and much more likely to find a job, as has been mentioned.