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HKUST香港科技大学金融科技专业申请攻略(硕士)
院校: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / 香港科技大学 专业: Financial Technology 授予学位: MSc 申请难度: 校友评分:
8.5
专业简介

金融科技是近年来发展迅速的新兴且重要的领域。它是指将尖端技术和高级分析应用于各种金融服务,旨在提高服务效率、促进金融创新和提高最终用户客户满意度。香港科技大学该项目由工商管理学院、工程学院和科学学院联合运营,从信息技术、区块链、数据科学、机器学习和决策分析等及时领域汲取专业知识。该课程为学生提供与流行金融技术及其工程和金融原理相关的基础知识和重要技能,从而增强他们在蓬勃发展的金融技术领域的市场竞争力。

课程设置

该专业需要修满30学分,其中16学分的核心必修课程和14学分的选修课程:

核心必修课程:

FINA 5120Corporate Finance

FINA 5210Investment Analysis

ISOM 5220FinTech Regulation and Compliance

MFIT 5001 AI for FinTech

MFIT 5002Blockchain

MFIT 5003Data Analysis

MFIT 5004Financial Data Mining

MFIT 5005 Foundations of FinTech

MFIT 5006Mathematical Foundation of FinTech

选修课程:

A list of electives offered in a particular year will be announced at the beginning of each academic year. The elective courses are a selection of FinTech courses chosen from the portfolio of the School of Engineering (SENG), School of Business and Management (SBM), and School of Science (SSCI). Students have to take at least one elective course from each of SENG, SBM and SSCI.

申请材料及要求
  1. 成绩单(中英文盖章件)
  2. 在读证明或毕业学位证(中英文盖章件)
  3. 语言成绩
  4. 简历及工作证明(如有)
  5. 两封推荐信
  6. 个人陈述
  7. GRE/GMAT(不是强制要求)
  8. 其他奖项等(如有)
文书解析

PS 个人陈述写作框架:

Part 1. 你的目标专业是什么?为什么要申请这个专业?你对目标专业的理解是怎样的?你为何能匹配这个专业? 

Part 2.高中/本科/硕士的学习科目,掌握技能和取得的成绩。

Part 3.课外活动和实习经历以及工作经历。

Part 4: 为什么申请这个学校? 为什么要申请这个大学的这个专业? 

Part 5. 职业规划(不同目标专业的职业规划)短期目标&长期目标

Mathematics and computer science have become widely-used tools and driving forces in the development of modern finance industry, such as algorithm trading(算法交易), cry ptocurrencies(数字货币), and mobile payment(移动支付). The purpose of this statement is to describe my wonderful experiences, how my career objective of being a technical sales specialist(技术销售专家senior) in a Fin Tech company(金融科技公司) has been developed, and why I am strongly motivated to apply for MSc in Computer Science in the University of XX.

As a technical-oriented person, I am passionate about utilizing and applying cross-disciplines knowledge to solve financial problems. Driven by this interest, I have taken two internships in quantitative trading(数量化交易), and both involved a plenty of use of mathematical modelling(数学建模计算) as well as programming.

In WanKun Investment, I used R Scripts(R脚本) to automatically fetch and reprocess(取出再加工)the data and built automatic interactive GUI to complete automatic transaction. This experience made me realize that computer science could substantially improve the speed, accuracy and reliability of trading execution(交易和执行)compared to traditional manual work. Therefore, after that, I continuously sought for work opportunities related to Fin Tech and I then took the internship in Haitong Securities(海通证券) where I work as the structurer(结构师,金融行业术语). Haitong were applying for qualification of option market making(期权交易/期权做市), and according to the regulatory policies of China Securities Regulatory Commission, option market making requires complex high frequency and low latency trading system(低滞后时间的交易系统). Due to the lack of independent development in IT system. Haitong planned to purchase such system from third-party Fin Tech Company, 

申请日期

Fall 入学季分三轮申请:

Round1: 11.1

Round2: 12.15

Round3: 2.1

就业方向

毕业生将能够分析新兴金融技术的工程机制和金融原理,并在工程方法和定量技术的支持下,运用实际手段制定和解决与金融技术相关的问题。主要就业领域如软件工程和金融行业需要数字技能和商业分析能力的公司,如蚂蚁金服,京东金融,Grab,Oscar,Paypal等。

申请要点

1. 申请人最好有编程和数学背景。

2. 强烈建议申请人考取一个令人满意的GMAT或GRE分数。

3.不强制需要工作经验。但是,任何相关的工作经验都会为你的申请加分。

4.Toefl 80+或者IELTS 6.5单项不低于5.5或者Duolingo 105

5.目前开设FinTech 金融科技专业硕士的世界名校:

美国:Harvard ,Michigan,UW Madison,University of Minnesota,Pennsylvania,Columbia,MIT,Princeton,Fordham,Connecticut,Wake Forest,Georgetown,Florida,Duke,UC-Berkeley,Stanford,Colorado Boulder,UCB-Haas,共15所;

香港: 香港科技大学,香港中文大学;

英国:帝国理工,伦敦国王学院和爱丁堡大学

新加坡:新加坡南洋理工大学,新加坡管理大学

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