All about MBA Quantitative Finance Course

Introduction to Quantitative Finance

Quantitative finance focuses on the mathematical models used to price securities and measure risk. Financial engineering goes one step further to focus on applications and build tools that will implement the results of the models. Financial engineering combines the mathematical theory of quantitative finance with computational simulations to make price, trade, hedge and other investment decisions.

Quantitative finance is the field of applied mathematics concerned with dealing with the financial markets. It is the design and implementation of mathematical models that are used for pricing assets including derivative products, assessing risk, trading and predicting market moves.

Few lines about MBA Quantitative Finance 

The MBA Quantitative Finance course is a 2-years postgraduate course that is divided into 4-semesters.  The course has the specialised subjects in finance that deals with the financial markets by applying mathematical modelling techniques. The course provides a platform for students to build quantitative skills and develop underlying financial theories.

The course trains the students on application of mathematical and statistical methods of financial and risk management problems. The course covers diverse financial topics like history of financial markets, computational finance, fintech, empirical asset pricing, financial management and econometrics, mergers & acquisitions, microeconomics, securities analysis and portfolio management, financial risk management and many more.

Eligibility

The students who have completed their degree in any stream with 50% aggregate from recognised university are eligible to apply for MBA Quantitative Finance course.

Admission Procedures

The students can take admission to MBA Quantitative Finance by two modes. The first one is merit-based admission and second one is direct admission.

Merit Based Admission

The students interested in merit-based admission for MBA Quantitative Finance course are required to appear for entrance exams conducted at national and international levels. The students also have to appear and qualify these entrance exams in order to get merit admission to MBA courses.