Welcome to Risk's Business School Directory!

The directory contains the information on post-graduate degrees relevant to the financial risk management and derivatives industry. You will also find business schools offering short courses suitable for executives and highly experienced professionals who seek to update their knowledge in the area of finance, leadership, or management. You can search for a school in the country of your choice.

If you are a company
and you are looking to fill in graduate vacancy the directory provides you with a list of top business schools throughout the world; you can find strong candidates for positions in structuring, modeling, trading, and sales of complex financial products in the areas of credit risk, market risk, and operational risk

If you are a student
and you are considering career in risk management in leading financial institutions this portal gives you a quick and easy way to find relevant educational establishment wherever you are

If you are a business school representative
this is an ideal way to reach potential students and to develop relationships with representatives of the financial institutions by placing the details of the academic programmes in the areas of risk management, capital markets, finance, quantitative finance, portfolio management, and corporate finance

The ICMA Centre, University of Reading has an international reputation for providing quality undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education tailored to the capital markets industry. The ICMA Centre's success is based not only on the integration of applied finance theory and industry specific training but also its considerable professional and academic expertise, and strong links with companies and trade associations in the global finance industry. As part of the University of Reading's Business School, the ICMA Centre was awarded a rating of 5 in the most recent RAE, placing the group in 4th equal position out of 100 UK universities in this field of research.
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The University of Hawai‘i Shidler College of Business offers a unique one-year graduate degree in Financial Engineering with a mission of excellence in research, education, the community, and the environment. Hawaii's location in the mid-Pacific provides an exceptional opportunity with access to US markets in the morning and Asian markets in the afternoon. The Shidler MFE program is differentiated from other programs by offering a course on modeling and valuation of environmental finance and weather derivatives. We also have a strong focus on risk management. The MFE program will operate in conjunction with related disciplines at the University of Hawai‘i, primarily the Department of Mathematics, College of Information and Computer Science, and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
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The Master's in Financial Engineering Program provides students with a one-year graduate degree from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Instruction is led by world-renowned faculty from Haas, UCLA's Anderson School, UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, and UC San Diego's Rady School of Management.
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a research-intensive university ranked among the top 20 technological universities. NTU has four colleges comprising 12 schools.
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Introduced in 1994, Carnegie Mellon was the first to offer a degree in quantitative finance. Leveraging the strengths of Carnegie Mellon's stellar math and engineering schools, its renowned expertise in computer science, and home to one of the nation's top business schools (#5 in the world, Wall Street Journal '07), the Master of Science in Computational Finance (MSCF) program is regarded by many to be the top quantitative finance program in the world.
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The Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program at UCLA Anderson is designed for individuals who want to apply their analytical skills to a satisfying career in the world of quantitative finance.  Students are taught to apply cutting-edge theory to various aspects of the financial markets, from equities to fixed income, currencies to commodities.  Students are prepared for careers in quantitative research, derivatives structuring, modeling & pricing, trading, investment management and corporate risk management.  The program balances academic rigor with practical application to create a challenging and relevant curriculum, with courses taught by faculty that are world renowned in both the theory and the practice of quantitative finance. As a part of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the MFE Program enjoys unique advantages not available to other programs, many of which are not part of a business school environment. 

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