Dept. of Financial Engineering
Financial engineering has made a great leap as a discipline that integrates finance, economics, mathematics, statistics and computing. Today, it is a core sophisticated technology in the financial industry that has a decisive impact on the global competitiveness of financial institutions. Financial engineering has become an essential technology in carrying out specialized financial business, such as investment, M&A, risk management and credit appraisal, at banks, investment banks, securities businesses, or credit rating agencies. Its curricula are focused on training financial engineering experts with sufficient competitiveness.
The Division of Financial Engineering aims to train financial engineering experts with a globalized mindset through courses that integrate economics, business administration, mathematics, and computing. Its curricula are composed of basic courses, introductory courses, and advanced courses. The basic courses focus on an understanding of economic phenomena and the building of an ability for economic thinking and analysis. The introductory courses help students lay the groundwork for the quantitative analytical skills concerning financial phenomena and the basic theories on financial markets and products. The advanced courses help students enhance their ability for quantitative and qualitative analysis of financial phenomena and products. These courses deal with the major issues of financial engineering, such as price fixing for derivatives, the strategies for investment in financial assets, risk management and credit appraisal.