Master's in Quantitative and Computational Finance

Our approach to Career Services is to work one-on-one with each student to develop a career-search strategy, identify target companies, and prepare students for the interview process. Students benefit from a very strong alumni network and extensive corporate outreach efforts and become part of a greater community invested in each student's professional success.

GT MS QCF students are hired because:

• The degree is rigorous: the QCF program’s 12 courses demand that students develop proficiency in multiple programming languages and sophisticated mathematical modeling techniques to be used as tools in the navigation of the practical and theoretical aspects of the finance industry
• Project based experience prepares students to solve real workplace problems using market data and requiring integrated modeling, programming and financial skillsets
• Our program is responsive to industry needs: as regulation and innovation change the landscape of financial markets, MS QCF trains students for tomorrow’s job market
• Reputation: Rankings that the combination of rigor and reward the program emphasizes produces employees who are good at what they do – problem solvers, innovators, and communicators. Thirteen years of recruiting relationships and alumni network building has built a program which augment’s Georgia Tech’s already outstanding reputation for excellence.
• As one of the only top-ranked MS Financial Engineering program in the southeast, MS QCF continues to lead in multidisciplinary preparation for financial engineering careers. This structure draws from the academic rigor and professional focus which distinguishes Georgia Tech.

Academic excellence, financial need, and major of study are the primary criteria used for selecting recipients. Students awarded scholarships will typically be expected to maintain a cumulative as well as a semester GPA of 3.0.