M.S. in Risk Management at Queens College

M.S. in Risk Management Program

Areas of Concentration

Students will choose one of three areas of concentration: Accounting, which will prepare students to sit for the CPA exam, Finance, which will prepare students for the series of exams to be designated as a Chartered Financial Analyst and for select actuarial exams, and Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) Modeling, which will give computer science students training in designing models applicable to a variety of risk management applications, e.g. monitoring and risk aggregation applications, actuarial models, hedging models, and asset-liability management models.

Accounting majors or students graduating in any of the majors leading to the Bachelors of Business Administration at Queens College with a GPA of 3.0 or above may apply for, and on acceptance, complete the Finance concentration in 30 credits. Students with other backgrounds such as Mathematics, Economics or Computer Science or other majors may need to complete additional graduate core courses for any of these concentrations, up to a total of 15 additional credits for the Finance and DFA concentrations. Students with a minimum 3.0 GPA in an undergraduate major in accounting or any of the BBA majors at Queens College may apply for, and on acceptance, complete the Accounting concentration in 30 credits. Students without an accounting background wishing to enter the Accounting concentration will need to complete graduate core coursework in addition to the 15 credits described above, to a maximum of additional 26 credits.

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