# Master of Science in Computational Finance & Risk Management I enrolled in the [University of Washington](https://www.washington.edu/)’s Master of Science in [Computational Finance & Risk Management](https://depts.washington.edu/compfin/) (UW MS-CFRM), as a member of the 2023 cohort. The program is under the [Department of Applied Mathematics](https://amath.washington.edu/), housed in Lewis Hall. > The CFRM program at the University of Washington addresses the demand in the financial services industry for advanced quantitative computational finance competencies and next-generation risk management skills. CFRM provides students with a rigorous mathematical and statistical foundation as well as extensive instruction in the use of open source R-programming. The CFRM program at the University of Washington addresses the demand in the financial services industry for advanced quantitative computational finance competencies and next-generation risk management skills. CFRM provides students with a rigorous mathematical and statistical foundation as well as extensive instruction in the use of open source R-programming.

The University of Washington Master of Science in Computational Finance & Risk Management 2023 Cohort.

I've taken the following [courses](https://depts.washington.edu/compfin/courses/) in the program: * 501: Investment Science * 502: Financial Data Science * 503: Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management * 504: Options and Other Derivatives * 505: Monte Carlo Methods in Finance * 506: Financial Data Access & Analysis * 509: Ethics in the Finance Profession * 521: Machine Learning for Finance * 523: Advanced Trading Systems * 532: Endowment and Institutional Investment Management * 540: Risk in Financial Institutions * 542: Credit Risk Management As part of my coursework and program, I've applied and reinforced my skills in the following programming languages: * Python * R * Excel VBA * SQL {% embed url="" %}