Quantitative Finance Requirements

The major in Quantitative Finance requires a minimum of 14 courses. Required courses include:

Finance

• FIS 303 – Financial Management
• FIS 309 – Investments
• FIS 409 – Portfolio Management
• FIS 415 – Quantitative Finance

Math

• Math 176 – Calculus I
• Math 177 – Calculus II
• Math 324 - Probability
• Math 325 – Mathematical Statistics

Data Science

• CS 125 / DS 125 - Introduction to Computer and Data Sciences 
• DS 225 - Data Analytics with Visualization
• CS 377 / DS 377 - Applied Data Analysis

Ethics

• CS 222 – Ethics, Values and Issues in Cybertechnology

Electives (at least 2 to be chosen from the list below)

• FIS 305 – Financial Statement Analysis
• FIS 306 – Cases in Financial Modeling
• FIS 308 – Derivatives
• FIS 411 – Advanced Portfolio Management
• FIS 413 - Trading
• Math 215 – Linear Algebra
• Math 340 – Differential Equations
• Math 403 – Computation Data Analysis
• Math 407 -Numerical Methods
• Math 451 – Wavelet Analysis
• CS 314 - Database Systems
• CS 338 – Artificial Intelligence
• CS 387 - Deep Learning
• ECON 301 – Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECON 302 – Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECON 338 – Time Series Analysis