On your program at NUS, I was impressed by the rankings, and by the broad emphasis on all major areas of financial economics in your program. Some other such programs are focused narrowly on derivatives pricing and riskmeasurement. Your coverage of other areas, such as empirical modelling, corporate finance, and banking practice, will serve well the needs of future financial engineers.

The program looks terrific! I am sure this will be one of most innovative MSc programs in Singapore. I particularly admire its inter-disciplinary nature, the curriculum and lecturers are first class. The success of the program will be crucial to the development of Singapore’s financial industry.

I must say that your program in Financial Engineering looks very impressive. It includes all the up to date issues in this growing and exciting area of Finance. The multidisciplinary nature of the program, bring together faculty from Finance, Computing, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering, seems to be a particular strength of the program.

My first impression is that this is a rigorous degree program at a high level, comparable to programs offered at Carnegie-Mellon, Columbia, the London Business School, and Michigan. We hope to have a similar program at Berkeley by the year 2000. The range of topics offered is quite broad and covers all the key areas of financial engineering. In sum, this look like a first-class program.

The program structure appears thoughtfully prepared. In particular, the program shows a strong balance between finance, mathematics, and computer science – a balance that is absolutely critical for students to develop a thorough understanding of modern-day risk management and all of its intricacies.