Employer information
The Master of Quantitative Finance (MQF) at Waterloo provides an ideal foundation for a career in the challenging and constantly changing financial markets. It incorporates a four-month internship where students work on applied problems with Canada’s major banks, pensions funds, financial institutions and related businesses.
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- Where our interns and graduates work.
Schedule
- New students enter the program each September, completing two academic terms of intensive, demanding courses followed by an internship in the financial industry.
- After completing their four month internship from May to August they return for a final academic term and completion of their research project.
- Students in the thesis option normally complete four courses, (with the option of additional courses) along with their master's thesis.
- In addition to the required courses students typically select from a wide range of electives including:
- Numeric Computation for Financial Modeling
- Asset and Liability Management
- Mathematical Models in Finance
- Portfolio Optimization
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Risk Management