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Poznań University of Economics

Quantitative Finance

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⇑Quantitative Finance at UEP

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: http://ue.poznan.pl/en/

⇑Why study Quantitative Finance at PUEB?

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Why study it:

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.

⇑Test: Is Quantitative Finance the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You need to price an option whose payoff depends on the average price of an asset over time. How do you go about it?

2. How comfortable are you with stochastic calculus, probability theory and statistics?

3. A trading strategy shows spectacular returns on historical data. What’s your first reaction?

4. How do you feel about programming as part of your work?

5. A risk manager asks how much the portfolio could lose on a really bad day. How do you answer?

6. Lectures, research papers and group projects are in English, and your classmates come from many countries with backgrounds in maths, economics or engineering. How do you see that?

7. Your pricing model breaks down during a sudden market crash. What do you do?

8. How would you feel about writing a thesis on, say, machine learning for volatility forecasting?

9. You have to explain a complex derivative to a client with no mathematical background. How do you do it?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Finance
Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments. It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainties and risks. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Market participants aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, and their expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.
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Quantitative
Quantitative information or data is based on quantities obtained using a quantifiable measurement process. In contrast, qualitative information records qualities that are descriptive, subjective or difficult to measure.
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Finance
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." [...] The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.
Benjamin Graham, World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)
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Finance
There’s no longer any reason to believe that the wizards of Wall Street actually contribute anything positive to society, let alone enough to justify those humongous paychecks. ... It’s hard to think of any major recent financial innovations that actually aided society, as opposed to being new, improved ways to blow bubbles, evade regulations and implement de facto Ponzi schemes.
Paul Krugman, "Money For Nothing," The New York Times, April 26, 2009
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Finance
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.
Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832) Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VIII, Section I, p. 449
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