The Postgraduate Program in Data Science for Finance is an highly innovative quantitative orientated one year program geared towards technically-minded graduates wanting a deeper, more analytical study of finance, risk management and financial engineering than is found in general finance programs. The program is designed to prepare students for successful careers in asset management, financial engineering and risk management in the financial sector (financial markets, financial institutions, regulators and supervisors) using technologies and methodologies of last generation.
This Postgraduate Program lasts 4 trimesters. The classes will start in September 2018, ending in June 2019, running after working hours (after 6:30 p.m.), 2 to 3 times a week.
For the 2018-2019 intake, the Study Plan consists of 13 course units, in a total of 60 ECTS:
- Algorithmic Trading & Market Microstructure
- Asset Pricing & Portfolio Theory
- Big Data for Finance
- Computational Finance
- Data Science for Actuaries
- Deep Learning Methods in Finance
- Financial Data Science
- Financial Derivatives
- Fintech & InsurTech
- Fixed Income Securities
- Machine Learning in Finance
- Risk Management
- Text Mining
This Postgraduate Program gives access to the Master degree program in Statistics and Information Management, with a specialization in Risk Analysis and Management. This Master Program is ranked as the best Master degree program in Insurance, Risk and Actuarial Sciences in Portugal, the 3rd best in Europe and 5th best in the World by Eduniversal - international agency that publishes an annual ranking of the best MBA and Master's degrees in the world.
The applications are submitted online in NOVA IMS’ Applications Portal, from June 5th to July 5th of 2018. The tuition fee is €4.900 and there are special discounts as well as forms of payment. For more information about admissions and fees, please click here.