Doctorate Applied
Quantitative Finance
The Doctorate Applied Quantitative Finance Program
What could the financial world of tomorrow look like? In the age of digitization and AI, we are experiencing major upheavals in the financial sectors of companies, banks, insurance providers, auditing, and consulting firms. These changes offer great opportunities for those who use their skills to help shape this transformation. There is a high demand for finance experts at the intersection of financial modeling, financial engineering, and data analytics. With their quantitative finance knowledge, they not only understand numbers and data but can also translate them into valuable strategies. This is exactly where the MBA in Applied Quantitative Finance comes in.
As a graduate of the MBA Applied Quantitative Finance, you are perfectly prepared for all innovative topics in the financial sector and possess the skills and competencies to act as a leader.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
Learn more about our institute, our mission and vision, and what it means to be a quant.
FACTS AND FIGURES
Here you will find all the important information about the doctorate program at a glance. From the duration and start of the doctorate to costs and everything else you need to know.
Who is it for?
The financial world is full of innovations and exciting topics that need to be academically processed and further developed. Be a part of it and contribute to a sustainable future for finance with your doctoral thesis. Develop your professional and academic profile and take the next steps in your career.
Our doctorate program is aimed at everyone who wants to realize their dream of a doctoral title and is ready to take on the challenge of a promotion. You are part of our doctorate team and not a lone wolf. As a team, we must function and be able to trust each other. Therefore, we prefer doctorate candidates whom we have trained in our MBA Applied Quantitative Finance or with whom we have already worked intensively.
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What makes our doctorate program unique?
Innovative & novel doctorate approach
We work with doctorate candidates who have gone through our school of modeling-based financial engineering. Therefore, you do not need to take any preparatory courses. If we admit you, you have all the prerequisites for a doctorate and can start directly.
Utilizing innovations from practice
You will find a research topic that has a high degree of innovation and in which you also work professionally. This allows you to bring top-notch knowledge into the academic world and to process the chosen question optimally and successfully with all the means at your disposal. Ideally, both you and your company will benefit from your research work.
Personally supervised
Our doctoral students are personally supervised by our team of professors. You benefit from our many years of academic and scientific experience and an enormous network.
With 10 modules, one might expect them to be taught by 10 different professors. However, behind the 10 modules are exactly 2 professors who have created this teaching content over the last 20 years in the form of consecutive publications. Using interconnected modules, you will learn how the individual elements of financial modeling, financial engineering, and data analytics are related.
Admission & Application Deadlines
Completed MBA in Applied Quantitative Finance or equivalent degree.
Proof of 300 ECTS or equivalent academic achievement.
A current certificate of good conduct (police clearance).
Informal declaration that no previous doctoral attempts have been made.
Winter semester: Application deadline August 31.
Summer semester: Application deadline February 28.
Tuition Fees
The tuition fees for the Doctor of Business Administration consist of several components:
Enrollment fee: One-time fee of €500.
Supervision fee: No additional costs for supervision.
Semester fee: €6,500 per semester. A minimum of 6 semesters is required as part of the doctoral program.
From the 7th semester onwards, the semester fee is reduced to €5,000.
Graduation fee: No additional costs for the doctoral degree.
Please note that fees are payable for all semesters in which the doctoral studies are completed. Fees are to be paid before the start of each subsequent semester. In the event of de-registration after the start of the semester’s lectures, the full fee for the semester must be paid.
The HfWU has successfully completed system accreditation by the Accreditation Council.
This certified the university’s own system for quality assurance in teaching and learning (AQAS). These certificate courses will in turn be credited toward the MBA Applied Quantitative Finance, and the tuition fees will be reduced accordingly.
The Applied Quantitative Finance study program has successfully completed all stages of this quality assurance system according to the relevant specifications and is accredited on this basis. Thus, it is subject to
continuous and systematic quality monitoring.
The further development of the program is supported and ensured by an advisory board composed of high-caliber representatives from science and practice.
"At LBBW, we place great value on highly qualified employees. They are the key asset for providing our customers with the best possible advice. The EIQF doctorate program forms an important building block in the development of our talent."
“As a quant, you also speak the language of the board, as you master risk management in companies. You are able to see transactions from the board’s perspective.”
PROF. DR. DR. JOACHIM HÄCKER
MANAGING DIRECTOR EIQF
