What is the Stony Brook training in Quantitative Finance?
The objective of the Stony Brook training in Quantitative Finance is to produce practitioners and researchers who can function as researchers and practitioners at the highest levels of the profession. In contrast to other institutions whose programs have few options and often do not go beyond the Masters, Stony Brook’s program is designed with considerable flexibility that can dovetail with traditional academic study in the mathematical sciences. i) Students can specialize in quantitative finance by following the requirements of the M.S. track in Operations Research and Quantitative Finance with all or most electives in Quantitative Finance. For details, see M.S. Requirements These students have the option of taking the OR-QF PhD Qualifying Exams and continuing for doctoral study in Quantitative Finance. ii) Students in other graduate tracks (statistics, computational applied mathematics and computational biology) can earn an Advanced Certificate in Quantitative Finance, or simply take
