Financial Engineering Management

(800) 944-4312
(909) 607-7811
drucker@cgu.edu
www.cgu.edu/fineng

Faculty

Degrees Offered

Financial Engineering (MS and PhD)

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the School of Mathematical Sciences jointly offer the MS and PhD degrees in financial engineering. The program prepares students to design, evaluate, and manage modern complex financial instruments used in investment banking and corporate finance. The mathematics component provides the computational toolbox of analytical techniques needed to analyze and evaluate such instruments. The management component provides tools to interpret institutional needs and goals in the design of a portfolio of appropriately constructed instruments. Applicants to the program should have a strong undergraduate background in mathematics, experience in computer programming, and familiarity with mathematical software. Students will acquire the necessary management tools during the course of the program.

Special Programs

Accelerated Degree Program

Claremont Graduate University offers qualified students at the undergraduate Claremont Colleges the opportunity to begin the MSFE degree while completing undergraduate study. The applicant usually applies to the program during their junior year and, with the guidance of the program coordinator and their undergraduate advisor, takes up to 16 units of coursework that may be counted toward the graduate degree. Following their baccalaureate graduation, the accelerated degree student is able to complete the MSFE with one additional year of study.

Dual Degree Program

A student wishing to pursue the MSFE degree in conjunction with another degree must complete a minimum of 32 units of additional coursework beyond what is required for the second degree. The Financial Engineering program will accept up to 16 approved units from another program toward the M.S.F.E. degree to reach the total of 48 units required for the degree. Models for the dual degree programs, specifically MSFE/MBA; MSFE/EMBA; MSFE/PhD(Economics), are available from the financial engineering program coordinator. A student can complete a dual degree program efficiently by planning with the program advisor at the beginning of graduate work with this goal in mind. See the information on dual degree programs in the “Degree Regulations ” section of this Bulletin for more information.