Course Offer
This page provides an overview of courses offered in the current and upcoming semesters. Links to course information and material can only be accesed with a valid university account. Prospective students can find course descriptions for all offered courses here.
Course Schedule
Courses offered in the summer term 2025:
A timetable can be found here (does not necessarily contain all offered courses).
Please verify the credit point information given above using the information provided on the webpages for the course you are interested in. Please also ensure that you can choose the desired courses in your specialization.
If you want to take an exam in a course that is not listed here you must clarify this with Prof. Löffler by the end of April.
a) Project Class in Asset Management:
- Specialization Financial Economics: Students are required to take either "Project Class in Asset Management" or "Practical Financial Engineering" as a compulsory course in "Other". Both courses cannot be taken as compulsory elective modules.
- Specialization Financial Mathematics or Actuarial Science: Students can take the course "Project Class in Asset Management" as an elective in Financial Economics.
b) Please note that German language courses other than the ones specifically offered for international MSc students are usually not eligible. Furthermore, English language courses and language courses in your mother tongue are not eligible.
Courses that are taught in German that can be taken for Financial Economics include: Big Data Analytics (7 CP), Qualitatives Risikomanagement in der Versicherung (4 CP), Corporate Strategy (7 CP), Informationsökonomik (7 CP)
Courses that are taught in German that can be taken for Actuarial Science include: Qualitatives Risikomanagement in der Versicherung (4 CP)
Courses that are taught in German that can be taken for Quantitative Methods include: Big Data Analytics (7 CP)
Note that there are DAV Supplements which can be obtained in following courses:
- "Wirtschaftliches und rechtliches Umfeld" in Insurance Economics
- "Schadenversicherungsmathematik" (one part, other part can be obtained in Life-, Health- and Pension-Mathematics during the winter term) in Risk Theory II
- "Modellierung und Enterprise Risk Management" in Asset Liability Management
Please contact the course instructors or Dr. Schelling if you have any questions about the DAV supplements.
If you need help in your course selection, you can contact the program coordinator Stefan Rausch.
Courses to be offered in the next semesters
This schedule is preliminary and may be subject to change.
| Actuarial Science | Financial Economics | Mathematics | Quantitative Methods | Other |
Insurance Economics, 6 CP Management of (Re-)Insurance Companies, 4 CP Selected Topics in Insurance and Finance, 3 CP tba | Financial Modeling, 3 CP Advanced Financial Intermediation, 7 CP Asset Liability Management, 10 CP Insurance Economics, 6 CP Management of (Re-)Insurance Companies, 4 CP Project Class in Asset Managementb, 4 CP Issues in Emerging Market Finance, 3 CP Machine Learning and Decision Making, 4 CP tba | Continuous Time Financial Mathematics, 4 CP Risk Theory II, 9 CP Stochastic Analysis, 4 CP Mathematics of Games, 9 CP High Performance Computing 2, 8 CP Partial Differential Equations, 9 CP Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations, 6 CP Numerical Methods for Data Science, 6 CP Selected Topics in Insurance and Finance, 3 CP tba | Data Mining, 6 CP Learning Systems I, 6 CP Mathematics of Games, 9 CP Machine Learning and Decision Making, 4 CP tba | Seminars Practical Actuarial Science, 4 CP Practical Financial Engineering, 4 CP Project Class in Asset Managementa, 4 CP Additional Key |
This schedule is preliminary and may be subject to change.
| Actuarial Science | Financial Economics | Mathematics | Quantitative Methods | Other |
Life, health and pension mathematics, 9 CP Risk Theory I, 9 CP Risk Management in Insurance, 7 CP Derivatives, 7 CP Selected Questions in Insurance Mathematics, 3 CP tba | Asset Pricing, 7 CP Business Unit Strategy and Corporate Finance, 7 CP Research in Finance, 4 CP Life, health and pension mathematics, 9 CP Financial Statement Analysis, 2 CP Risk Management in Insurance, 7 CP Derivatives, 7 CP Data Analysis: Description, Inference and Causality, 7 CP Behavioral Finance, 3 CP tba | Discrete Time Financial Mathematics, 4 CP An Introduction to measure-theoretic probability, 4 CP Mathematical Statistics, 9 CP Advanced Statistics, 4 CP Optimization/OR 2, 9 CP Mathematics of Machine Learning, 9 CP Graph Theory I, 9 CP High Performance Computing 1, 8 CP Risk Theory I, 9 CP Numerical Optimization, 6 CP Selected Questions in Insurance Mathematics, 3 CP tba | Data Analysis: Description, Inference and Causality, 7 CP Learning Systems II, 6 CP Pattern Recognition, 6 CP tba | Seminars Risk Management Roundup, 4 CP Practical Actuarial Science, 4 CP Additional Key |
Study plans
The study plans (study plans for students enroled before the winter term 2021/22 are available here) show typical courses of study, seperately for the three possible specializations. Note that the credit points stated per semester are not binding: You do not need to achieve exactly the stated number of points per semester.
A list with course descriptions for all available courses can be found here.