Quantitative Finance

• Programme: four pillars of modern finance
• Qualifications: CFA Institute University Affiliation Program
• After graduation: banks, funds and financial supervision

Quantitative Finance at the Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB) is a two-year Master's (second-cycle) programme taught in English that prepares you for a career in the financial sector as a quantitative analyst or risk manager. It is designed for graduates with a bachelor's or engineering degree who are ready for a highly specialised, quantitative-oriented study of finance.

Programme: four pillars of modern finance

Some courses are taught by practitioners working in the financial industry as risk managers and pricing specialists. The programme is based on four main areas:

• risk management – financial risk management, actuarial methods, financial markets and instruments,
• corporate finance – advanced corporate finance, long-term incentive schemes, advanced financial analysis of enterprises,
• pricing of financial instruments – derivatives pricing, interest rates modelling, stochastic finance in continuous time,
• investments – portfolio theory, exotic options, alternative investments, hedge funds,
• quantitative tools throughout – calculus, probability theory and stochastic processes, econometrics, financial econometrics and a financial engineering project.

Qualifications: CFA Institute University Affiliation Program

Quantitative Finance is part of the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program – its curriculum embeds a significant portion of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge, including the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct.

After graduation: banks, funds and financial supervision

Graduates are prepared to work as financial engineers dealing with investment analysis and risk management. Potential employers include banks, central banks, financial supervisory authorities, investment funds, financial consulting firms and companies with financial analysis divisions. The statistical and quantitative methods you learn can also be applied in other sectors, where you can work as an analyst.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme descriptions at ue.poznan.pl.

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