List of UK Financial Engineering Programs

[Andy Nguyen]

Queen's University Belfast Quantitative Finance MSc programme seems to disappear as well.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Looks like the Birkbeck Mathematical Finance program is gone.

It has now been replaced with the Quantitative Finance with Data Science program. This new program took the first incoming students in Oct 2023 and will have first graduates in Oct 2024. There are still legacy Mathematical Finance students there but the focus is in the new QFDS program.
I'm told by the program that the new program has the core of the old Math Finance program but have many modules of stats, machine learning, Python, R added into it so the emphasis is on the data science.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Queen's University Belfast Quantitative Finance MSc programme seems to disappear as well.

This has been renamed MSc Financial Analytics last year.

 

[matthieu_fisher]

Not surprising. There will be a UK ranking this year and from the initial data I gather, too many programs for a very few applications.

Out of curiosity, how do you go about constructing UK rankings. Do you reach out to schools directly?

 

[Mr.FlyingSock]

There is also financial modeling and optimization msc at edinburgh

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Out of curiosity, how do you go about constructing UK rankings. Do you reach out to schools directly?

The same way we did with our US rankings. We reach out to programs and receive the data directly from them.

 

[quanthopefully]

The same way we did with our US rankings. We reach out to programs and receive the data directly from them.

How do you know the data is truthful? Whats to stop them from fabricating it?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

How do you know the data is truthful? Whats to stop them from fabricating it?

We don't claim to be able to check and verify it. We rely on the fact programs will be responsible to provide true and correct data.
The more data we can publish, the easier it is for everyone to check and hold the programs accountable for their numbers.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Just learned that LSE has the MSc Quantitative-Methods-for-Risk-Management program run by the Stats dept.
Their other older program at LSE is MSc Financial Mathematics run by the Math Dept.
Anyone applied to either one this cycle?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

University of Bath has this program. Anyone is familiar with it?

Financial Mathematics with Data Science MSc

Develop a strong foundation of quantitative, mathematical and computational skills relevant to a career in the financial sector.

www.bath.ac.uk

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I'm told by my university contact at Bayes that the 3 following UK programs will be consolidated into one with separate tracks. The Bayes Business School also just merged with St George’s, University of London so now the program will be called City St George’s, University of London, Bayes Business School - MSc Quantitative Finance
City, University of London, Bayes Business School - Mathematical Trading and Finance
City, University of London, Bayes Business School - Financial Mathematics
City, University of London, Bayes Business School - Quantitative Finance