Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science
Winter intake start date
2025-02-01
Winter intake deadline
2024-11-25
Apply and develop advanced mathematical and statistical tools to tackle financial challenges, ranging from price setting to risk management and policy advice. You will acquire a strong and fundamental background in quantitative finance, which prepares you for existing and new technological developments in the broad area of finance and insurance.
Use and develop a wide array of advanced mathematical and statistical models for risk measurement and risk management for banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, pension funds and governments. Being fully trained in generic methods for responsible risk management both in finance and in insurance, gives you a competitive advantage on the job market.
Become a highly qualified specialist in the area of quantitative finance and insurance, a field that uses sophisticated mathematical, statistical, and data science techniques for risk management, valuation, product design, regulation and more.
- Being fully trained in generic methods for responsible risk management in the financial sector, gives you a competitive advantage on the job market.
- Customize your program with many electives.
- Intensive contacts with industrial partners ensure a strong connection to practical aspects of the business world, leading to excellent internship opportunities, for instance.
- In the first semester of the regular program, you can also apply for the following advanced programs:
- The Extended Master's Program, which adds a half year traineeship to your regular Master's program.
- The QTEM network program, which adds an additional year to the program which you spend at a QTEM partner university and corporate partner.
Typical courses are:
- Valuation and Risk Management
- Asset Liability Management
- Empirical Finance
- Risk and Regulation
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (w języku angielskim lub oryginał z tłumaczeniem)
- Uwaga! Każdy kierunek magisterski może mieć inne wymagania i wymagać specyficznych dodatkowych dokumentów. Przed aplikacją sprawdź na stronie uczelni, jakich dokumentów potrzebujesz!
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS – 6.5
- TOEFL – 90
A Bachelor degree in Econometrics or a similar programme from a university that is recognised by the Admission Board.
More precisely, a solid academic background is required in the fields of: Mathematics and Statistics; Economics.
Future jobs
Your Master's degree in Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science from Tilburg University will open up extensive career opportunities for you in the private sector, as well as in the public and non-profit sectors.
Graduates of our program currently pursue successful careers at:
Banks
Insurance companies
Pension funds
Consulting agencies
Trading firms
Corporate treasuries and risk control departments
Regulatory institutions and government bodies.
Graduates of the Master's program in Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science have excellent career perspectives. Institutions in the area of finance and insurance nowadays are using a large array of sophisticated models for various business tasks, ranging from price setting to risk management and policy analysis. In order to remain competitive, institutions need a continuous inflow of highly qualified specialists. For the implementation of higher and more accurate safety standards, imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, even more specialists are needed.
There is a cross-fertilization of concepts and techniques between finance on the one hand and insurance on the other hand; Graduates of the Master's program in Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science are at an advantage here since they have been trained to think in both ways.
