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. 

Offered courses in winter term 2024/25

Actuarial Science	Financial Economics	Mathematics	Quantitative Methods	Other
Risk Management in Insurance, 7 CP Risk Theory I, 9 CP Derivatives, 7 CP Life-, Health- and Pension-Mathematics, 9 CP Selected Aspects in Stochastics of Risk Management, 3 CP	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 Behavioral Finance, 3 CP Data Analysis: Prediction and Causality, 9 CP Blockchain Fundamentals: Technology, Finance and Law, 4 CP	Discrete Time Financial Mathematics, 4 CP An Introduction to measure-theoretic Probability, 4 CP Mathematical Statistics, 9 CP Advanced Statistics, 4 CP Advanced Optimization with Applications, 4 CP Mathematics of Machine Learning, 9 CP Graph Theory, 9 CP High Performance Computing I, 8 CP Risk Theory I, 9 CP Numerical  Optimization, 6 CP Time Series Analysis, 4 CP Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation, 5 CP High-dimensional Statistics, 4 CP Selected Aspects in Stochastics of Risk Management, 3 CP	Data Analysis: Prediction and Causality, 9 CP Learning Systems II, 6 CP	Seminars Risk Management Roundup, 4 CP Practical Actuarial Science, 4 CP Additional Key Qualifications*

Here's a first and third semester timetable (updated on October 6, does not necessarily contain all offered courses).  Please verify the credit point information given here 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 and include them in your study plan.

If you want to take an exam in a course that is offered this term but that is not listed here you must clarify this with Prof. Löffler by the end of October.

* 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 Actuarial Science include: Ausgewählte Fragen aus Aktuarwissenschaften (4 CP)

Courses that are taught in German that can be taken for Financial Economics include: Internationale Rechnungslegung I  (4 CP)

Courses that are taught in German that can be taken for Quantitative Methods include: -

 

 Note that there are DAV Supplements which can be obtained in the following courses:

• "Versicherungsmathematik"  (one part, other part can be obtained in Risk Theory II) in Life,- Health and Pension-Mathematics
• "Angewandte Stochastik" in Risk Theory I
• "Finanzmathematik und Risikobewertung" in Derivatives
• "Unternehmenssteuerung" in Risk Management in Insurance

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 Stefan Rausch.

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.