Any comments about the MSc and PhD in Computational Finance of the Univ. of Essex (UK)?Thanks

The course seems to have the good stuff in it, and I've liked the cut of people I've met from there.But...Brits equate Old University == Good Universityand some will be amused and/or surprised that Essex has a university at all.

Yes DCFC, I suspect that's the case...I really like the programme, but never read anything about it in the forums... They could improve their website though, since it stinks and a lot of information regarding the course is missing...But they really have nice subjects in the programme.What did people from there told you about the uni, faculty, programme and prospects?

I've met people from the course, and they talked about it.So I found out by accident, how about you ?

I've found the link in Global Derivatives in the PhD section... I've browsed through the programme and i've found it quite interesting despite of the lousy quality of the website and lack of information. They clearly don't know how to market themselves... But i really felt it probably is a strong programme in terms of skills one can get, put probably won't get you a job after graduation...

I have just visited this page for the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents in Essex. I am not quite sure if that's the course you are refering to. The cf902 — Agent-Based Computational Economics and E-Markets paper seems to be a bit shaky as the core material for computational finance. Also, where is the Black Scholes, numerial methods for PDEs, Monte Carlo simulation etc?In general, I think it is important to check the publication of the professors who are going to giving out lectures for the program (MSc). Needless to say, it is even more crucial in the case of PhD program. The problem for computational finance is it can be offered by one of the three departments: statistics/applied math (good), finance/economics (good) and computer science (depends). Make sure they are not trying to sell you something like game theory, neural network and AI research instead.

It's the Computational Finance programme. I've kind of ruled out this programme because it doesn't have any reputation.Rgds

didnt dempster teach here once??