Academic Partnerships
GARP's academic partnerships play a critical role in educating the next generation of qualified risk managers. By working with colleges and universities to combine rigorous academic instruction with practitioner-driven insight and certification, students can be better prepared to succeed in the challenging field of risk management.
GARP's Academic Outreach team stands ready to partner with colleges and universities to:
  • Develop and enhance undergraduate and graduate-level risk curricula
  • Incorporate professional certification into academic programs
  • Increase recognition and visibility of approved risk programs
  • Provide opportunities to participate as a GARP Continuing Professional Education provider
  • Promote risk management as a profession and an academic discipline
  • If you are interested in exploring these opportunities, please contact Bill May at bill.may@garp.com

Programs in the Spotlight

AcademicPartnerships_DublinCity DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
The M.Sc. in Finance is a one-year full-time taught Masters programme designed for students who have just completed their undergraduate studies and want to prepare for successful careers in Finance. The emphasis is on risk, with a stream in Risk Management & Financial Engineering devoted to prepare risk professionals with the cutting-hedge knowledge and skills required to model and manage risk in financial and non-financial firms and in financial markets. It combines rigorous financial theory, supported by solid quantitative foundations and analysis, with a focus on real world risk-management and financial engineering.
academicpartnerships_iscte-iul ISCTE-IUL BUSINESS SCHOOL
ISCTE-IUL Business School is a Portuguese and state-owned business school with a leading position in post-graduate executive education. The Executive Master in Financial Markets and Asset Management is a 1-year, 12-subject professional MS degree program aimed to cover today's main financial products and instruments and to develop integrated techniques for analyzing and managing the different types of financial risks. Over 700 dealers, traders, financial analysts, and investment and risk managers have taken the course since its inception in 1995.
The program equips students to prepare for the FRM exams offered by GARP.
AcademicPrograms_LaTrobe LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
La Trobe University was established in 1964 and has since grown to be one of Australia's leading universities. La Trobe University's Master of Financial Analysis (Financial Risk Management) is an 18-month, 12-subject program designed to offer students, who intend to sit the exams for the FRM accreditation offered by GARP, a course of study which covers in excess of 70% of the FRM curriculum at both levels 1 and 2. In so doing it aims to assist students gain a globally recognized professional accreditation in financial risk management and enhance their career prospects within the investment, banking and finance industry. The program is organized into three, four-subject modules, taken over three full time semesters.
Academicpartnerships_lubin LUBIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT PACE UNIVERSITY
Globally recognized and prestigiously accredited, the Lubin School of Business integrates New York City's business world into the experience-based education of its students at Pace's suburban and downtown campuses, implemented by the region's largest career services program, team-based learning, and customized career guidance. Its programs are designed to launch success-oriented graduates toward upwardly mobile careers.
Academicpartnerships_lubin NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
The Financial Mathematics Program at North Carolina State University is an eighteen month program that offers a Professional Science Master's degree in Financial Mathematics. The Program provides technically trained individuals with an understanding of how to value and use financial derivatives and complex investments, including their role in risk management. Building on a foundational study of the institutional operation of financial markets, students receive rigorous training in mathematics - particularly in the areas of stochastic processes and probability, statistics, and computation. An internship experience or a research project is also required as part of the Program.
reims REIMS MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
The Reims Management School is a leading French "Grande Ecole" with a proven track record in finance education. Students in the established MSc in Management (Programme Grande Ecole) and the innovative MSc in Finance and International Banking specialize in financial risk management through the Quantitative Finance and Risk Management program.
In addition to preparing students for the FRM exam offered by GARP, this challenging program combines leading edge quantitative modeling techniques, real-world applications and insights into the behavioural aspects of risk-taking to provide a comprehensive view of risk management.
AcademicPartnerships_Tulane TULANE UNIVERSITY
The Master of Management in Energy is an intensive, full-time program that focuses on energy finance and trading. Students complete 34 credit-hours, and graduates earn a Master of Management degree. Tulane's Masters in Energy program is designed for those who are ready to focus and advance in the fast paced energy industry. The program is intended for those students with exceptional quantitative skills and who aspire to a career in the energy industry. The program assists students in preparing for the Series 3 (National Commodity Futures Exam), Series 7 (General Securities Representative Exam (Stockbroker), Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam), and Energy Risk Professional examinations.
academicpartnerships_university_of_colorado_denver UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - DENVER BUSINESS SCHOOL
The MS Degree program in Finance and Risk Management at the University of Colorado Denver was developed to enhance & expand the knowledge required in financial risk management, financial analysis, financial markets & global investing. It offers specializations in Finance, Financial and Commodities Risk Management, Financial Analysis and Management, & Risk Management and Insurance. The program is supported by its state of the art J.P. Morgan Commodities and Finance Trading Lab,. With 10 three credit courses required to be taken over a minimum of one year, and online options for several courses, the student will gain all he/she needs, to be an effective leader in this growing an exciting field of Risk Management.
The program equips students to prepare for the FRM exam offered by GARP.
AcademicPartnerships_UConn UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
The Master of Science in Financial Risk Management is designed for business professionals who want to enhance their careers by fully understanding how to identify and manage various types of financial risk.
The 15-month program emphasizes both rigorous theoretical and quantitative analysis, as well as practical and hands-on experience addressing real world risk-management problems (i.e. credit, interest rate, currency and market risk in asset and wealth management, arbitrage strategies, restructuring and combinations, and alternative investments).
AcademicPrograms_UniversityofWashington.jpg UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
The Master of Science in Computational Finance and Risk Management (MS-CompFin) is a professional MS degree program designed to address the demand in the financial-services industry for advanced quantitative computational finance skills and next generation risk-management skills. Individuals who understand how to manage assets to enhance investment returns while controlling risk are required throughout the world of financial services, as are individuals who understand modern risk-management methods. The emerging profession of financial risk management underscores the growing importance of the latter skill set. For students with strong mathematical and quantitative skills, Computational Finance and Risk Management represents exciting new career paths to consider.
Continuing Professional Education
Our CPE program offers Certified FRMs and ERPs the support and opportunity to continue their professional development.
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