Math background for quant

[udays]

Hi!

I'm an Economics undergrad at a top university in Singapore. As I understand, I need a strong background in finance, math and computing to have a competitive application for top quant programs. Here is my profile:

-Finance: specialisation in Finance: corporate finance, mathematical finance, money and banking, business finance, financial economics; 1 internship at a fund management company in India (coding intern)
-Math: high school: linear algebra & differential equations; university: intermediate econometrics (will take advanced as well), mathematical finance (introduction to stochastic processes), probability and statistics (probability distributions, conditional distributions, joint densities, et cetera.), basic math (differentiation, partial derivatives, integration, differential equations, matrix algebra)
-Programming: minor in Computing & Data Analysis; intermediate Python, basic C++, intermediate R, (Excel/VBA); 1 incoming internship as data analyst at data science startup in the FMCG sector in Singapore (data visualisation, engineering, analytics; model deployment, AWS, NoSQL)

I'm worried that my background in Math may not be enough for MFE programmes. Where does my profile stand? What are my strengths and what can I work on?

Thanks!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

You can address the programming part first by taking C++ and Python. We have those courses online here which are taken by thousands of prospective MFE applicants and highly recommended by top programs.
Finance and math part, I think you can take extra quantitative courses during your undergrad to address them. It may take you extra semester(s) to graduate. Another option to address finance knowledge readiness is taking the Options Primer course here.

 

[udays]

You can address the programming part first by taking C++ and Python. We have those courses online here which are taken by thousands of prospective MFE applicants and highly recommended by top programs.
Finance and math part, I think you can take extra quantitative courses during your undergrad to address them. It may take you extra semester(s) to graduate. Another option to address finance knowledge readiness is taking the Options Primer course here.

Thanks for sharing the resources! If I'm unable to take extra quantitative courses during my undergrad (my university is a little rigid in terms of overloading credits), is there any other way to formally take them?