Certificate in Market and Credit Risk Management

 Driven by the evolving requirements of the investment industry and designed for practitioners, the Certificates in Risk Management train participants to appreciate recent, and forthcoming, paradigm shifts and equips them with the conceptual and practical tools to improve the organization of the investment process and risk management.

Certificate in Foundations of Risk Management


Certificate in Market and Credit Risk Management

Spanning traditional, alternative, and structured investments, and drawing on the latest advances in finance, the Certificates focus on dynamic asset allocation and advanced risk management techniques as well as on the integration of investor needs and constraints in the design of novel solutions for risk management.

This is a non-degree, certificate program of appeal to students in finance, financial advisors, analysts and risk managers. All applicants must have an undergraduate degree before applying with foundations in derivatives, fixed income and statistics to qualify for the Certificates. Students will normally apply for the Foundations of Risk Management Certificate before the Market and Credit Risk Management Certificate.

To apply for any of the Certificate Programs, please submit your resume, statement of purpose and transcripts from any university level programs along with a paper application and a $55 application fee. You may download the application here.

Mail all application documents to:

Office of Graduate Programs
College of Arts and Sciences, HR240
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117

For more information, please contact Elsa Evans, MSFA, MSRM and MAIR Program Assistant at (415) 422-4553 or msrm@usfca.edu