Financial engineering: a new dimension at EPFL

Over the past decades the financial industry has become increasingly complex and volatile. Specialists with a solid analytical background are urgently needed both to understand past developments and to drive financial innovation forward. Recent events have demonstrated new needs in areas such risk measurement and management, derivatives pricing and hedging, portfolio management, model validation and corporate finance. Nested within the College of Management of Technology (CDM), the newly created Financial Engineering section aims to provide cutting edge education in finance at EPFL particularly through its Master in Financial Engineering (MFE) which is the result of a multi-disciplinary effort involving the Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL and the College of Management of Technology as well as faculty members from Mathematics, Computer Science and Communications Systems among others. In addition to the MFE, the Financial Engineering section also offers finance courses in the Master in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship and in the Swiss Finance Institute PhD. Program

FE News

► The Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance is organizing a Conference on Interest Rate and Credit Risk at EPFL on 28th and 29th October 2010.
► For detailed information about the Master in Financial Engineering, including the curriculum of the program, the application procedure and the requirements for admission, please visit the MFE website or contact mfe@epfl.ch
► Starting in September 2009 most of the courses of the MFE program will take place in rooms 118 and 126 at Extranef on the campus of the University of Lausanne (UNIL). A interactive map of the UNIL campus with directions to the Extranmef building can be found here.