<p>I’m a little confused by the rice website and I’m trying to figure out the degree requirements for the computational finance major. The website says the program complements quantitative students, does that mean that computational finance is an add-on to another major? Can someone help me?</p>
<p>Financial Computation and Modeling (FCAM) is a minor, not a major.</p>
<p>FCAM is a minor that is most easily accomplished with a major in Math/Econ, STAT, CAAM, engineering, or another quantitative discipline.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in computational finance, try to see if you can take the 1-hour STAT 499 (I believe these are also crosslisted with MATH and CAAM) VIGRE seminars. They are really interesting, and function as a slight GPA boost to boot.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.rice.edu/catalog/2008_2009/PDF/07_UndergradInfo.pdf[/url]”>http://www.rice.edu/catalog/2008_2009/PDF/07_UndergradInfo.pdf</a> on page 23 of this catalog, it’s listed as a major. Is that just a typo?</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s a typo, unfortunately.</p>
<p>If you go to the website as well, it also says it’s an interdisciplinary minor: [CoFES:</a> Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems](<a href=“http://cofes.rice.edu/]CoFES:”>http://cofes.rice.edu/)</p>
<p>Are there certain majors that the computational finance minor complements, or can any major minor in computational finance?</p>
<p>A lot of classes overlap or are related to ECON major</p>
<p>I know a person who’s math-econ caam double major who’s taking it because it’s so easy to get for him. I imagine it’s pretty similar for any math-econ person who’s interested in finance (math-econ is mathematical economics, and it’s a major)</p>
<p>btw if you’re thinking about getting it, take caam 210 and not comp. comp will be frightening and you’ll be overworked using an outdated programming language as opposed to matlab which is simple and widely used and applicable in econ.</p>