HelloDoes anyone know of such distance learning programs available either in Europe or in USA ?thanks in advance for your info.nd

I've looked into this as well . To my knowledge there aren't any institutions currently offering comp/quant finance degrees through an online 'distance learning' option.Carnegie Mellon provides the option of attending classes from a facility in NYC. These are apparently simulcast from their Pittsburgh Pa. campus.also Columbia offers a non-credit seminar in Quantitative methods.http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/0301_detail.htmlI had heard that Purdue was considering offering an online CF degree. Their site doesn't mention this option though.

At Columbia you can pursue a "certificate" in financial engineering on-line, which only includes completing 12 credits (4 courses). If you later want to (and are accepted into) their MFE program on-campus, you MIGHT be able to apply those four courses towards the MFE.I think I might have heard somewhere that UIUC (U. of Illinois) was doing something similar. But these are NOT degrees, and I don't know what value they may have (depends on what you want them for).The department which administers the on-line courses is CVN (Columbia Video Network). It's within the engineering school, and they've been doing the distance learning thing since the mid-80's. They offer dozens of courses each semester (as well as during the summer), that are basically identical to the on-campus engineering courses (same lectures, homeworks, exams, etc.). They started by over-nighting VCR tapes to people (remember the 80's?); they still do that, but also offer streaming video on-line. Most of the courses are in the more traditional areas of engineering, but they do have some MFE classes.Check out: http://www.cvn.columbia.edu/

the UIUC course can be found at http://www.cba.uiuc.edu/finance/online. ... ds,Skyrats

There is also an online program at Berkeley but its more finance / business orientated than quantitative. You can also study a distance learning program in Operation Research through the University of South Africa and some of the courses are financial engineering in nature.