For graduate students interested in the Financial Engineering Diploma, please read the Mini-Calendar for details on the Admission Requirement, Course Requirement, Internship/Research Project Requirement, and Seminar Requirement. The following paragraphs provide links to necessary forms, and explain the procedures.
Admission
Once you have carefully reviewed the Mini-Calendar, and decided to apply, please email me the application form, your CV and the transcript. For PhD students, please ask your academic supervisor(s) to email me the permission as well.
Deadline: end of the first term of your MA program; or one year before your PhD graduation; for students starting from a winter semester the deadline extends accordingly.
Course Registration
Please read the list of required courses in Mini-Calendar. For math courses, you may register directly; for Schulich courses, you will need to get approvals from Schulich for each of them. To make it easy, just fill in course-program-other.pdf form for each of them and send forms to me. I will facilitate the rest of the process. Keep in mind that, Schulich administrate its courses with different rules, procedures, deadlines, etc.
Note 1: since the Schulich courses are not from Faculty of Science, you will only get notice about the registration result a few days before the first lecture, even if you registered well ahead of time.
Note 2: since the Schulich courses are not from Faculty of Science, there are different course drop deadlines, typically earlier than courses of faculty of science. Check the deadlines here: https://schulich.yorku.ca/current-students/graduate-students/key-dates/
For your convenience, here is a typical schedule of the required courses:
MATH 6910: Stochastic Calculus in Finance (Fall)
MATH 6912: Machine Learning in Finance (Winter)
FINE 6200: Investments (Fall)
FINE 6800: Options, Futures and Other Derivative Securities (Fall)
FNEN 6820: Advanced Derivative Securities (Summer)
FNEN 6840: Enterprise-Wide Financial Risk Management (Summer)
FINE 6850: Fixed Income Securities (Winter)
Internship/Research Project
As specified in the Mini-Calendar, you need to arrange an relevant internship or research project in the second year. Once you have the setup, and before the start of the internship or the research project, please send me the Internship and Project Approval for Diploma Form. After you have successfully completed the internship or research project, please ask your supervisor to send me a confirmation email.
Deadline: April 22nd
Seminar Requirement
Here is the seminar attendance form you will need to fulfill the Seminar Requirement as specified in the Mini-Calendar. Please follow the instructions written in the seminar attendance form.
Deadline: you shall fulfill the Seminar Requirement before applying the FE diploma
Apply for the FE Diploma
Congratulation to you if you have successfully completed above steps! Now it is time to apply for the FE diploma. Please carefully read the instructions in the form Application-to-Graduate_FE_Diploma. Congratulations again to your successful completion!
Deadlines: google 'York University convocation' to find out the three convocation dates of this year, and you need to apply for FE diploma one month ahead of the your convocation dates. Also note that you could have one extra term after your MA/MSc/PhD degree convocation, if needed, to finish your FE diploma requirement, see the policy here.
