Welcome
This new and exciting specialist course is located at the
Coleraine campus and is the
result of collaboration between the
School of Computing & Information Engineering
and the
Department of Business, Retail & Financial Services.
The overall aim of the
course is to provide a focussed study in financial engineering - a discipline which
brings together 3 strands: (i) software development, (ii) mathematics and modelling
and (iii) finance and securities. The skills developed in these three areas permit
trading, hedging and investment decisions to be made as well as facilitating the risk
management of those decisions. In summary assessing the financial risk associated
with a range of financial instruments. Graduates from this course will be well placed to
gain immediate employment in the financial engineering industry with the alternative
of undertaking further postgraduate study in the area. The course content has been
devised following extensive discussions with representatives from
Invest NI, local
industry, and other academic institutions.
