Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2025
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2025
Rankings are assigned to the top 25 universities.
Rank | University/institution | Programme title | Class size | Acceptance rateiPercentage of applicants who receive offers | Students acceptingiPercentage of students who accept offers | Students/lecturersiAverage number of students per lecturer | Industry lecturers | Lecturers’ citations | Employment rate | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Master of Financial Engineering | 17 | 5% | 93% | 1.42 | 58% | 14,241 | 100% | $162,429 | |
2 | Master in Finance | 25 | 4% | 76% | 0.95 | 22% | 74,054 | 99% | $164,583 | |
3 | University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business) | Master of Financial Engineering | 75 | 20% | 80% | 2.59 | 28% | 19,020 | 97% | $147,578 |
4 | Master’s in Probability and Finance | 92 | 17% | 96% | 2.49 | 19% | 14,595 | 84% | $115,850 | |
5 | Master’s in Financial Mathematics | 30 | 17% | 87% | 1.50 | 18% | 37,382 | 100% | $117,250 | |
6 | MS in Financial Engineering | 123 | 11% | 79% | 3.42 | 56% | 29,112 | 100% | $123,000 | |
7 | Master of Science in Quantitative Finance | 120 | 17% | 68% | 0.98 | 61% | 37,198 | 100% | $129,156 | |
8 | Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance | 80 | 22% | 46% | 1.55 | 73% | 75,800 | 97% | $116,500 | |
9 | Master in Engineering with Financial Engineering Concentration | 21% | 37% | 1.24 | 33% | 30,419 | 99% | $130,000 | ||
10 | Master's in Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science | 25 | 15% | 100% | 3.50 | 14% | 14,698 | 100% | $73,500 | |
11 | Master of Science in Computational Finance | 100 | 17% | 60% | 4.04 | 16% | 12,094 | 100% | $136,052 | |
12 | MSc in Mathematics and Finance | 59 | 20% | 48% | 3.21 | 26% | 9,141 | 90% | $120,000 | |
13 | Master of Quantitative Finance | 25 | 17% | 81% | 1.46 | 59% | 4,187 | 96% | $64,000 | |
14 | Master’s in Quantitative Finance | 155 | 23% | 78% | 1.45 | 53% | 17,481 | 100% | $60,761 | |
15 | MS in Financial Engineering | 22 | 28% | 43% | 2.63 | 51% | 7,241 | 98% | $99,490 | |
16 | MSc Computational Finance | 83 | 23% | 54% | 3.27 | 33% | 14,753 | 98% | $90,352 | |
17 | New York University (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) | MS in Mathematics in Finance | 27 | 18% | 28% | 1.07 | 93% | 8,730 | 76% | $112,301 |
18 | MS Computational Finance and Risk Management | 51 | 24% | 30% | 5.64 | 55% | 78,270 | 89% | $109,000 | |
19 | Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance | 72 | 33% | 27% | 2.40 | 7% | 35,632 | 100% | $116,246 | |
20 | University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson School of Management) | Master of Financial Engineering | 48 | 33% | 48% | 3.73 | 23% | 18,994 | 89% | $114,808 |
21 | MSc in Mathematical and Computational Finance | 60 | 14% | 51% | 3.73 | 13% | 17,101 | 88% | $96,044 | |
22 | M2 Random Modelling, Finance and Data Science | 65 | 29% | 65% | 1.63 | 25% | 15,927 | 90% | $70,000 | |
23 | Master of Mathematical Finance | 36 | 15% | 55% | 1.64 | 59% | 6,314 | 83% | $70,299 | |
24 | Quantitative Finance MS | 35 | 39% | 67% | 1.90 | 20% | 19,978 | 85% | $100,000 | |
25 | Financial Risk Management MSc | 74 | 20% | 58% | 2.80 | 33% | 10,013 | 98% | $61,709 | |
n/a | Master in Finance, Insurance and Risk Management | 25 | 69% | 56% | 0.61 | 54% | 8,231 | 92% | ||
n/a | Master in Quantitative Finance | 55 | 28% | 44% | 2.25 | 36% | 9,025 | 83% | ||
n/a | MSc in Mathematical Finance | 20 | 25% | 21% | 1.33 | 7% | 90% | $84,780 | ||
n/a | Master’s in Financial Engineering | 13 | 76% | 23% | 0.57 | 23% | 8,078 | 96% | $108,130 | |
n/a | Master of Quantitative Finance | 25 | 27% | 63% | 1.29 | 0% | 24,124 | 73% | ||
n/a | Master of Science in Financial Engineering | 92 | 24% | 44% | 4.04 | 91% | 2,968 | 91% | $46,413 | |
n/a | Master of Science in Financial Engineering | 36 | 54% | 30% | 5.44 | 44% | 5,394 | 92% | $99,268 | |
n/a | Master’s in Quantitative Economics and Finance | 37 | 63% | 65% | 0.82 | 24% | 11,124 | 64% | $101,789 | |
n/a | MSc in Quantitative Finance | 16 | 47% | 28% | 1.19 | 14% | 4,516 | 80% | $67,841 | |
n/a | Master of Financial Mathematics | 30 | 54% | 23% | 2.64 | 18% | 7,791 | 86% | $66,000 | |
n/a | MSc in Finance and Risk Management | 70 | 13% | 51% | 7.95 | 14% | 3,651 | 88% | $36,000 | |
n/a | Master of Science in Actuarial and Financial Engineering | 52 | 55% | 1.04 | 0% | 4,992 | 78% | |||
n/a | MS in Financial Engineering | 14 | 60% | 25% | 0.93 | 0% | 4,804 | 65% | $98,000 | |
n/a | MSc in Financial Modelling | 18 | 51% | 75% | 0.80 | 0% | 38% | |||
n/a | MS in Mathematical Finance and Financial Technology | 44 | 66% | 20% | 8.00 | 36% | 8,071 | 64% | $85,000 | |
n/a | Finance and Machine Learning MSc | 30 | 56% | 41% | 0.50 | 31% | 9,663 | 28% | $40,200 | |
n/a | MSc Financial Engineering | 75 | 36% | 51% | 7.33 | 33% | 4,495 | 16% | $36,000 |