# 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. 

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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

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