Berkeley MFE Blog

Welcome to my series on fintech’s evolving role in finance! If you missed part one, you can find it here.

The Intersection of Tech and Finance After eight years in consumer banking data science and analytics, Shravan Sunkada (MFE18) wanted to broaden his repertoire of quantitative techniques and advance his applica...

Banking has historically been one of the few business sectors most resistant to disruption by technology. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wasn’t flattering the financial industry when he said in 20...

A Virtuous Cycle Between UC Berkeley and BlackRock for MFE'16 Alumna Mengdan Ma

In case you missed it, here are ten crucial tips to help you complete your application to the Berkeley MFE Program. We have four seasonal deadlines for admission to our program start in spring.

After completing his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Warwick, Ashley Whitfield headed to London to pursue a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at University College London. Throug...

A Master of Financial Engineering degree is highly sought after by those looking to acquire the skills necessary to become “quants,” people who apply mathematics, programming and statistics to finance. Among si...

Juan received his Bachelor of Electronics Engineering and Economics from Andes University and then went on to earn a Master’s degree in Economics. For Juan, the Berkeley MFE was the perfect program to help jump...