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Quantitative Finance Requirements

Foundation Courses: The following should ideally be completed by the end of sophomore year.

  • GW 100: Gateway Colloquium
  • ACC 112: Accounting for Decision Making I
  • ACC 212: Accounting for Dicision Making II
  • ECON 100: Introduction to Economics
  • ECON 227: Statistics
  • MATH 176: Calculus I (or university credit for AP Calculus)

Major Requirements

The following courses are to be taken upon successful completion of the foundation courses. The major in Quantitative Finance requires a minimum of 13 courses. Required courses include:

Finance

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

Math

  • 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
  • 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

NOTES:

  • Internship 397 does NOT count as an lective toward any major or minor
  • No more than one D in the major or minor is permitted
  • No course may be used to meet the requirements of more than one major or those of a major and a minor
  • The University requires students to complete 11 course units numbered 300 or higher, at least 4 of them must be in the major department