Financial Technology

This Financial Technology MSc program from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology provides students with fundamental knowledge and important skills relating to popular financial technologies and their engineering and financial principles, thereby enhancing their market competitiveness in the booming FinTech field.

The Financial Technology MSc program from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is designed for talents and working professionals who want to combine technical and financial knowledge to generate innovative solutions that meet the challenges of this emerging field. In view of the multi-disciplinary nature of FinTech, the MScFinTech program, jointly run by the School of Business and Management, School of Engineering, and School of Science, draws expertise from timely areas such as information technology, blockchain, data science, machine learning, and decision analytics.

Key Facts

FinTech is an emerging but important area that has been developing rapidly in recent years.

Students are required to complete a total of 30 credits of coursework, made up of at least 16 credits of core courses and 14 credits of elective courses*. Subject to the decision of the Program Director, promising students who do not have a strong mathematics background may be required to take the required course - Mathematical Foundation of FinTech (2 credits) on top of the graduation requirement of 30 credits. Students are required to attend at least six enrichment activities recognized by the program as part of the graduation requirement.

* The electives offered in a particular year will be announced at the beginning of each academic year. Students have to take at least ONE elective course from each of SBM, SENG and SSCI. The offering of elective courses is subject to availability.

Courses include:

• AI for FinTech
• Blockchain
• Corporate Finance
• Data Analysis
• Financial Data Mining
• FinTech Regulation and Compliance
• Foundations of FinTech
• Investment Analysis