The University of Connecticut's Professional Master's in Applied Financial Mathematics prepares a graduate for work in an analytic capacity across a wide spectrum of the financial services industry investment banks, private equity, hedge funds, mutual funds, consulting firms, investment firms, insurance companies, commercial banks, brokerage houses and other corporations. The program emphasizes finance, investing, and risk-management together with rigorous mathematical modeling and analytical techniques applied to problem-solving in those areas and communications skills required to be effective in a corporate environment.<br><br>This program is a joint venture of the Departments of Mathematics with the Department of Finance and the Department of Statistics.<br><br>Students do well in this program if they enter with a high GPA bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, quantitative economics, or other related fields and want a career applying their already strong mathematics skills and knowledge to the understanding and solution of problems involving finance, investing, and risk. No prior knowledge of business, finance or investing is required but the mathematics background is essential. We expect applicants to have completed undergraduate coursework in differential calculus, integral calculus, multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and mathematical probability/statistics (taught in a calculus framework). If one of these is missing it can be made up upon enrollment, but usually an applicant's background should be missing no more than one of these.