Financial Analytics (Post-Graduate Certificate)
Further Your Education. Advance Your Career with Additional Undergraduate Studies
The Postgraduate Certificate in Financial Analytics is available to students who hold an undergraduate degree from any accredited university. This program will help equip students with the economic reasoning and computational tools to tackle leading-edge problems in the world of investments and financial markets.
Admissions Requirements
Entry Term: September 2024, September 2025 Trent University Durham campus only
Duration - full time studies only (2 academic terms)
Program Completion Requirements: Completion of 4.0 credits as specified
No transfer credits awarded.
For more information visit our Admissions webpage
Are you an international student and want to apply? please complete this application form.
When applying to a postgraduate certificate program, please ensure that you select the exact program and campus that you wish to study at. Be sure to research the program length, courses, and available start terms and campuses prior to submitting your application. After submitting your application, changes to programs and campuses will not be made without a new, paid application. Once you are registered in courses, changes cannot be made to your program or campus.
Course Requirements
The Certificate program consists of the following 4.0 credits:
– 1.5 ECON credits consisting of ECON 1010H, 1020H, and 3020H
– 1.0 MATH credit consisting of MATH 1051H and 1052H
– 1.5 ECON-MATH credits consisting of FINA 4101H, 4102H, and 4103H
– A minimum cumulative average of 65% is required to complete the certificate
Postgraduate certificate courses can be found in the undergraduate calendar and timetable.
Course Registration
For help with course registration, use the how to guides at
Course Selection and Registration website.
Trent International also provides the following helpful information:
New Student Course Registration:
For support with new student course registration,
visit our website for next steps.
New International Student Webpage:
Visit our New International Student Website to determine your next steps after you have completed course registration.
Breakdown of courses by term
Full time students are to follow the schedule of courses by term as outlined below. We cannot guarantee course availability if students do not follow the recommended course sequencing. Students who fail to adhere to the recommended schedule may not be able to complete their certificate program within the scheduled number of terms and students may have to return to complete an additional term.
Link to detailed course registration instructions
Term 1 September
- ECON 1010H Micro-Economics
- MATH 1051H Non-Calculus Statistics I
- FINA 4101H Options and Futures
- FINA 4102H Portfolio and Risk Management
Term 2 January
- ECON 1020H Macro-Economics
- MATH 1052H Non-Calculus Statistics II
- ECON 3020H Financial Economics
- FINA 4103H Financial Econometrics
For students who have accepted their offer of admission and have questions about registering in their courses or life at Trent, please email math@trentu.ca.
Application to Graduate from the Certificate
At the beginning of your last term, when you believe you are ready to graduate, you can submit the Application to Graduate form found in myTrent under Academics > Self Service > Graduation Overview. You should apply as soon as your course registration for your final term is finalized (early in Summer term if you are graduating in September; early in the Fall term if you are graduating in January; early in the Winter term if you are graduating in Spring). The deadline to apply to graduate can be found in the Academic Calendar site under Important Dates, as well as at Important Dates & Deadlines.