Quantitative Finance MSc

University of Leeds

Gain the quantitative expertise to model markets, manage financial risk and succeed in a highly analytical finance career. Quantitative finance professionals apply their skills in maths and statistics to model, analyse and navigate financial markets and behaviours. As organisations face increasingly challenging and unpredictable financial conditions, those who can specialise in this area can thrive in enriching careers on the international financial stage. On this Masters degree, you’ll acquire knowledge of advanced finance concepts, while developing your quantitative, mathematical and research skills. You’ll engage with a distinctive blend of finance and mathematical expertise, delivered jointly by the Leeds University Business School and the School of Mathematics. This will give you a highly desirable skill set in the financial sector by banks and investment companies. You’ll study specialist areas such as derivative pricing, portfolio optimisation, quantitative risk management, discrete and continuous time models, and computational finance. You’ll also hone your coding skills, developing practical capabilities in Python and R for data analysis and financial modelling.