Program Overview:

Washington University is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. This dual degree program between USTC and Washington University allows students toget to master's degrees; one from USTC, and one from the Olin Business School at Washington University.

The Dual Degree program has a "2+1" structure. Selected USTC students follow an integrated USTC Master of Finance and Olin Master of Science in Finance program: 2 years at USTC, and 1 year at OLIN.

Program design:

(1) USTC admits students each year into the “2+1” program, starting in September.

(2) Students spend the first year (Semesters 1 and 2）at USTC.

(3) Students who want to study at Olin submit applications to Olin

(4) Students admitted by Olin take MSF courses at Olin in the second year (Semesters 3 and 4), starting in August.

(5) After finishing the coursework at Olin, students go back to USTC for additional coursework in the third year.

(6) At the end ofthe "2+1" program, if a student meets the requirement of both Olin and USTC,then the student can apply for the dual degree certificate.

Curriculum: 

The curriculum will be comprised of a minimum of 63 credit units, 33 of which will be taught primarily by Olin faculty over 2 semesters in the Olin School of Business (Semesters 3 and 4), and 30 of which will be taught primarily by USTC faculty over two Fall semesters and one Spring semester (Semesters 1, 2 and 5, taught consecutively) in USTC School of Management in Hefei.

The Olin curriculum will be in English. The program will teach through case studies, projects, computer aided learning, simulations, etc.

Outline of Schedule of Program and Courses

Semester 1(September to December, USTC, 22 credits)

1.    英语 (4) 

2.    中西管理思想史(3)

3.    金融经济学Financial Economics(3)

4.    公司金融Corporate Finance (3)

5.    应用统计方法Statistics (3)

6.    商务决策分析Quantitative Decision Making (3)

7.    随机分析Stochastic Calculus in Finance(3)  

Semester 2(January to June, USTC, 21.5 credits)

8.    数值方法Numerical Methods in Finance(2)(transferrable to Olin)

9.    Python、算法与数据结构Computer Science (2)   

10.  金融衍生工具Financial Derivatives(3)  

11.  固定收益证券Fixed Income Securities (2)  

12.  优化方法Optimization in Finance (2)  

13.  数据挖掘DataMining (2.5)  

14.  机器学习MachineLearning (2) (transferrable to Olin) 

15.  统计计算StatisticalComputation (2)  

16.  商业预测分析PredictiveAnalytics for Business Decision-Making (2)  

17.  中国经济改革(2)  

Semester 3(September to December, Olin, 16.5 credits)

18.  FIN524 Options & Futures (1.5) 

19.  FIN532 Investment Theory (1.5)  

20.  FIN538 Stochastic Foundations for Finance (1.5)  

21.  MGT537 Invest in Your Career (0)  

22.  FIN524B Derivative Securities (1.5)  

23.  FIN532B Data Analysis for Investments (1.5)  

24.  Chooseone: FIN 527 Financial Markets (1.5) (preferred) OR FIN 521 FinancialIntermediation (1.5)  

25.  MEC537 Data Analysis, Forecasting and Risk Analysis (3)  

26.  CSE501N, Programming Concepts and Practices, plus lab (Java programming) (3)  

27.  MGT560F Professional Business Communication (1.5)  

Semester 4(January to June, Olin, 16.5 credits)

28.  FIN525 Fixed Income Securities (1.5)  

29.  FIN534 Advanced Corporate Finance I – Valuation (1.5)  

30.  FIN539 Mathematical Finance (1.5)  

31.  FIN551 Advanced Credit Risk Modeling (1.5)  

32.  FIN534B Advanced Corporate Finance II – Financing (1.5)  

33.  FIN 500Q Quantitative Risk Management (3)  

34.  FIN537 Advanced Derivative Securities (3)  

35.  Chooseone: (a)MKT 500S Predictive Analytics for Business Decision Making (3) (b)

CSE 502N Fundamentals of Computer Science (3) (c) CSE503S Rapid Prototype

Development and Creative Programming (3) (d) CSE 504NObject-Oriented Software

Development Laboratory (3) (e ) CSE 514A Data Mining(3) (f) CSE 517A Machine Learning (3) (g) CSE 530A Database Management Systems(3)

Semester 5(September to December, USTC, 15 credits)

36.  管理沟通 Managerial Communications (2) 

37.  金融风险管理Risk Measures and Management (3) 

38.  量化交易 Quantitative Trading (2)  

39.  行为金融Behavioral Finance (2) (transferrable to Olin)

40.  证券投资分析Security Analysis (2)  

41.  大数据分析技术BigData Analytics (2) (transferrable to Olin)

42.  商务智能BusinessIntelligence (2)  

Semester 1,2 and 5 (USTC, 3 credits)

43.  中国金融市场专题 (1)  

44.  信息技术和金融创新 (1)  

45.  金融史专题(1)  

46.  现代金融前沿讲座()  

47.  风险管理前沿讲座()  

48.  专业实习(在金融机构或政府及企事业单位专业相关工作岗位实习3-6个月) (2) (transferrable to Olin)

备注：选修课可能会有课程增补与调整，以开学培养计划为准；学生必须选定一个模块，修满一个模块最低要求学分（如果选择一个模块的人数过少，该模块可能直接取消）。 

Transferrable Courses

Transferrable Courses (Olin to USTC)

1.    FIN532B Data Analysis for Investments (1.5) 

2.    MEC537 Data Analysis, Forecasting and Risk Analysis (3) 

3.    CSE501N, Programming Concepts and Practices, plus lab (Java programming) (3) 

4.    FIN551 Advanced Credit Risk Modeling (1.5) 

5.    FIN 500Q Quantitative Risk Management (3) 

6.    FIN537 Advanced Derivative Securities (3) 

Transferrable Courses (USTC to Olin)

1.     Internship (2)

2.     Numerical Methods in Finance (2)

3.     One of the following

(1)   BehavioralFinance (2)

(2)   MachineLearning (2)

(3)   BigData Analytics (2)

       Or othercourses approved by the Academic Director. 

Contact Information:

Ms.Ruizhen Zhang

Tel:0551-63606293

Email:zrz8zrz@ustc.edu.cn