New York University
(Courant Institute)

Master of Science of Mathematics in Finance (M.S.M.F.)

The program has a strong pragmatic component, including practically oriented courses and student mentoring by finance professionals. The faculty includes members of the National Academy of Science and the National Academy of Engineering; and winners of the National Medal of Science, the Kyoto Prize and recognition from the National Science Foundation. About 10 percent of program applicants are accepted.

Manhattan

NA

12 courses, 1 year

35 full-time, 90 to 100 part-time

Nearly 100 percent job placement over the past two years. Students typically place in research, trading, asset management or risk management groups at firms such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, BlackRock and BNP Paribas.

www.math.nyu.edu/financial_mathematics

Peter Carr. Carr currently is head of quantitative research at Bloomberg LP and has been the director of the NYU master’s program in mathematical finance since 2003. He headed equity derivatives research groups for six years at Banc of America Securities and Morgan Stanley. He received his Ph.D. in finance from UCLA in 1989 and is credited with coinventing the variance gamma model, inventing static and semistatic hedging of exotic options, and popularizing variance swaps and corridor variance swaps.



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