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Financial Analytics (Post-Graduate Certificate)
Further Your Education. Advance Your Career with Additional Undergraduate Studies
Designed for students that have already completed an undergraduate degree in another discipline and would like to supplement it with further undergraduate courses in financial analytics. 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
Apply online or learn more here. In order to be accepted into the postgraduate certificate, students must have completed an undergraduate degree from an accredited university.
Entry Term: September 2024, September 2025 Trent University Durham campus only
Duration - full time studies only (2 consecutive terms)
Program Completion Requirements: Completion of 4.0 credits as specified
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.
Graduating from Trent this year with your undergraduate degree?
As a 2024 Trent grad*, you qualify for direct admission to our Business Dual Postgraduate Certificate program. No need to pay to apply. Registering is easy – just send a confirmation email to admissions@trentu.ca from your Trent University account. We will also waive the application fee. For more information about this special offer, visit call 1-888-739-8885.
Course Requirements
The certificate program consists of the 4.0 credits (8 courses). A minimum cumulative average of 65% is required to complete the certificate
Postgraduate certificate courses can be found in the undergraduate calendar and timetable. For individual course descriptions, see the University Calendar. Please consult the academic timetable, for information on when courses will be scheduled.
It is important to register in your courses without delay and prior to your arrival!
Course Registration
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. The full time certificate is to be completed as two consecutive terms.
September 2024 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. A minimum cumulative average of 65% is required to complete the certificate.
Convocation ceremonies for students who graduated during the last year (September, January and Spring) are held the first week of June. Please visit Convocation site for the most up-to-date information.