Master of Actuarial and Financial Engineering 24 months Postgraduate Program By KU Leuven |Top Universities
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# 83QS Subject Rankings

Program Duration

24 monthsProgram duration

Tuitionfee

4,591 EURTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

Accounting and FinanceMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Accounting and Finance

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Master of Actuarial and Financial Engineering

This Master’s programme prepares you for a wide array of careers in actuarial science, financial engineering or quantitative risk management in financial institutions. You will learn to construct robust risk...
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Program overview

Main Subject

Accounting and Finance

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Master of Actuarial and Financial Engineering

This Master’s programme prepares you for a wide array of careers in actuarial science, financial engineering or quantitative risk management in financial institutions. You will learn to construct robust risk...
Read more

Admission Requirements

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Admission requirements

Students are expected to have good analytical skills (i.e. solid mathematical background) and this offers a reasonable foundation for the course work.

Mathematics: Derivatives / integrals / functions / limits / differential equations / algebra / vector operations (scalar product, vector product, …) / solving a system of equations / recursions / matrix algebra / determinants / eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Probability: Theory Probability laws and probability spaces / random variables / distribution functions / density functions / discrete and continuous distributions / expected values, variances and higher moments / asymptotic laws for random variables / moment generating functions / functions of random variables / multivariate distributions / dependent random variables / correlations

Statistics:  Descriptive statistics / estimators for the mean, variance,… / confidence intervals / testing of hypotheses / simple econometric models (linear regression with one or more independent variables).

ICT: Basic programming skills to write simple functions (e.g. R, Matlab, SAS, Excel) / simulation / handling data sets (reading data using statistical software).

Economics: Basic macroeconomic and microeconomic knowledge. Students who do not have this knowledge, have to follow the Preparatory programme: Master of Actuarial and Financial Engineering.

Law: No prerequisites necessary.

For the most recent – and only official – information on the admission requirements, please check our webpage.

2 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
1,157 EUR
International
4,591 EUR

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QS subject rankings

Subject: Accounting and Finance

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Ranking criteria

Overall
70.1
Academic Reputation
67.3
Citations per Paper
76.3
Employer Reputation
69.9
H-index Citations
78.7

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