In summer of 2015, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ) launched, in partnership with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the Master of Science Programme in Financial Engineering. This programme is one of the first such master degree programmes offered by CUHKSZ. Financial engineering is multidisciplinary, blending knowledge and skills from financial theory, advanced mathematics, modeling, analysis and optimization, programming and implementation, and product development. This Programme provides training across a wide spectrum of financial knowledge and applications of quantitative methods to finance. It is designed for students who wish to pursue a career in securities, banking, and financial management and management/strategic consulting, or as quantitative analysts in corporate treasury and finance departments of manufacturing and service firms. Our graduates, equipped with skill sets that span finance, quantitative methods, and computer programming, will be highly sought after to meet new challenges in the dynamically changing and rapidly growing Chinese and international financial markets.

MSc in Data Science is a joint programme launched by the School of Data Science (SDS) and the School of Management and Economics (SME), in collaboration with Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (SRIBD) and Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI). The programme is aimed to equip students with fundamental knowledge as well as skills in big data and business analytics, and provide students with the cutting-edge theories and methods of big data technology. Graduates will be able to tackle issues of data capture, storage and analysis in various sectors, including business, government, security, healthcare, biology, science and environment.