What is the focus of CGU’s Financial Engineering program?
The Financial Engineering program at Claremont Graduate University is offered as a collaborative, joint effort between Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and the School of Mathematical Sciences. Students take approximately half of their coursework in applied mathematics with an emphasis on financial applications. For the first half of their education, students are in classes with mathematics PhD students. Most of our math faculty hold PhDs in industrial engineering or operations research, and are interested in applications to financial engineering. For the financial management half of their coursework, students are in classes with MBA students. The management-side coursework is taught by professors who are interested in the managerial applications of financial engineering and who emphasize discussion-format and case-method classes, with high levels of student participation, teamwork, and presentation. With this unique structure, the Master of Science in Fi
