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Undergraduate Program in Computational Finance
The Department of Statistics in collaboration with the Department of Economics brings together the first and only undergraduate interdisciplinary minor at Rice University. The minor in Financial Computation and Modeling (FCAM) is designed to allow students to recieve excellent training for future employment in the financial sector. To earn a minor in FCAM, students would need to take three courses each from the two groups as listed below:
The Schools of Engineering, Social Science, and Graduate School of Management together are offering an undergraduate emphasis in computational finance. The program is designed to complement the degree programs of quantitatively oriented students. The sequence of seven courses for the computational finance focus are as follows:
- A course in basic computing such as CAAM 210, or COMP 210, 211 or 212
- ECON 448 Corporate Finance
- STAT 310 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
- STAT 486 Computational Finance I: Market Models. This course is not offered ever semester.
- STAT 421 Computational Finance II: Applied Time Series and Finance
- ECON 449 Basics of Financial Engineering
- Computational Finance in Practice; a senior projects course.
Only students completing the first six courses and approved by the faculty advisory board of the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems may register for the senior projects course.
Vertical InteGration of Research and Education
VIGRE is an on-line environment which brings together Mathematics, Statistics, and Computational and Applied Mathematics. This combination of interdisciplinary groups work on parallel themes to achieve the full potential of vertical integration and the merging of education and research. It was designed to ensure that members at all levels will be able to contribute to work in many fields and appreciate the broad relevance of mathematical sciences.
If you are interested in a CoFES Undergraduate Internship please send an email to Cofes@rice.edu.
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