BUFN742

Financial Engineering

Prerequisite: BUFN610. Restriction: Permission of BMGT-Robert H. Credit only granted for: BUFN742 or BUFN766. Formerly: BUFN766. Introduces and applies various computational techniques useful in the management of equity and fixed income portfolios and the valuation of financial derivatives and fixed income securities. Techniques include Monte Carlo Simulation and binomial/lattice pricing models. Emphasis is on bridging theory with the design of algorithms and models that can be directly applied in practice.

Fall 2025

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.49 between 213 students*

BUFN742 Grade Distribution+-0510152025303540455055% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 23.94%
A: 23.47%
A+: 7.04%
B-: 2.82%
B: 17.84%
B+: 23.47%
W: 1.41%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.