What sorts of careers do financial engineers pursue?
Financial engineers use the skills they acquire during their degree programs toward a broad selection of careers in finance, including the trading of securities, financial modeling, sales, risk management and portfolio management. We believe that the skill sets acquired in a financial mathematics masters program are sufficiently broad to prepare students for many interesting fields. Moreover as it is increasingly recognized in financial firms that computational and mathematical skills are critical to the success of all organizations, the market for students with financial mathematics degrees continues to broaden. In the 2002 Survey, 38% of students stated that they want a career in some sort of job related to derivatives pricing, while 21% said risk management and 18% said trading derivative instruments (14% of students did not respond).
