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 / DASC 125 Introduction to Computer and Data Sciences 
• DASC 225 Data Analytics with Visualization
• CS 377 / DASC 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 elective 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