Program Overview
Trent's Financial Science program equips students with a unique blend of theory and practical skills in mathematics, statistics, economics, business, and computing. Graduates are prepared for careers in finance, including roles as financial analysts, investment managers, and stockbrokers. The program features resume-boosting opportunities such as work experience through the co-op stream and the development of industry-standard financial skills using modern software.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Trent’s comprehensive Financial Science program – the only one of its kind in Canada – gives high-achieving students a foundation in the theory and practical techniques for modelling and managing the complexities of modern financial challenges. Here you will apply skills in mathematics, statistics, economics, business, and computing to analyze investment industry trends and implement real-world data models, setting you up for an exciting career in an increasingly complex financial world.
Careers:
Featured
- Finance and Commercial Affairs Analyst: Financial and investment analysts collect and analyze financial information such as economic forecasts, trading volumes and the movement of capital, financial backgrounds of companies, historical performances and future trends of stocks, bonds and other investment instruments to provide financial and investment or financing advice for their company or their company's clients. Their studies and evaluations cover areas such as takeover bids, private placements, mergers or acquisitions. Financial analysts are employed by a wide range of establishments throughout the private and public sector, such as banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies, investment companies, manufacturing firms, trust companies, utility companies and underwriting firms. Investment analysts are employed primarily by brokerage houses and fund management companies.
Career Opportunities
- Business Intelligence Consultant
- Brokerage Specialist
- Credit Risk Analyst
- Personal Financial Advisor
- Financial Reporter
- Actuary
- Financial Analyst
- Stockbroker
- Investment Manager
Other:
- Resume Boosters:
- Gain 12 months of work experience in the industry through the four-year coop stream, working full-time for three terms, getting first-hand experience in accounting, investment analysis, actuarial consulting, and brokering
- Develop industry-standard financial skills using modern software and digital platforms, including Bloomberg terminals
- Construct your own financial models based on real-world financial data through lab courses, applied case studies, and research projects
- Get practice making fast-paced decisions by participating in virtual trading floor competitions
- "The training that the graduates will receive from a program like this will prepare them for a wealth of careers across the public sector, the nonprofit sector, finance itself, the sub-areas of insurance and banking and so on, but also just a more general graduate school aim as well." – Dr. Wesley Burr
- Popular Courses:
- Financial Accounting
- Econometrics
- Investments
- Derivatives
- Linear Models
- Mathematical Risk Management