For graduate students interested in the Financial Engineering Diploma, please read the Graduate Calendar for details on the Admission Requirement, Course Requirement, Internship/Research Project Requirement, and Seminar Requirement. The following paragraphs explain the procedure in more details.
Admission
Once you have carefully reviewed the Graduate 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 the Graduate Calendar. For math courses, you may register by yourself directly; for Schulich courses, since these are offered through a different faculty, you will need to get approvals from Schulich. The only way to get approval is to fill in Request to Take a Course in Another Graduate Program at York 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 6914: Data Driven Finance with Python (Summer)
FNEN 6820: Advanced Derivative Securities (Summer)
FNEN 6840: Enterprise-Wide Financial Risk Management (Summer)
MFIN 5700: Consulting Project in Finance (Summer)
FINE 6200: Investments (Fall)
FINE 6800: Options, Futures and Other Derivative Securities (Fall)
FINE 6850: Fixed Income Securities (Winter)
MATH 6912: Machine Learning in Finance (Winter)
Consulting Project course/Internship/Research Project
As specified in the Graduate Calendar, you need to take MFIN 5700: Consulting Project in Finance or substitute the course with an relevant internship or research project in the second year, which requires you to send me the Internship and Project Approval for Diploma Form before the start of the internship or the research project. 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
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 follow the instructions in the form Application-to-Graduate_FE_Diploma.
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.
