BSc in Quantitative Finance

The QFIN Career Mentorship Program aims to provide a platform to connect QFIN students with prestigious mentors who have achieved success in various sectors of the industry. It is our honor to have the industry leaders as QFIN students’ career mentors. They have helped QFIN students solidify their goals and gain professional perspectives. QFIN program is grateful for the partnership built with our mentors, and sincerely appreciate the support they have provided.

Here is the list of QFIN mentors and the periods they participated in the mentorship program:

• Angus HUI (2016 - Present)
• Anthony LAU (2009 - Present)
• Clifford WONG (2022 - Present)
• David LEE (2017 - 2019)
• Elton SHUM (2019 - Present)
• Gabriel LO (2017 - Present)
• Gladys CHAN (2013 - Present)
• Haris LAW (2014 - Present)
• Jack YANG (2014 - Present)
• Jacky LEUNG (2009 - Present)
• Jennifer HSIEH (2019 - Present)
• Jessica KONG (2022 - Present)
• Jürg NIEDERBERGER (2016 - Present)

• KC CHAN (2017 - 2018)
• Kelvin CHEN (2017  - Present)
• Laura LUI (2019 - Present)
• Philip TSO (2009 - Present)
• Ronnie WU (2011 - Present)
• Sam T. CHAN (2017 - Present)
• Samuel CHANG (2016 - Present)
• Stephen LAU (2014 - 2021)
• Steven SO (2013 - 2019)
• William CHOW (2016 - Present)

If you have any question about this list, please feel free to contact us.

The oversea exchange program can benefit students in many areas and provides advantages which can be carried through life. Through studying at leading overseas universities, students enrich their global outlook and expand their vision, interpersonal skills, creativity and cultural awareness. HKUST Business School continually seeks new opportunities to expand our network of quality exchange partners. To date, we have established a total of over 138 partners in world-wide destinations where students can choose to go on exchange. Click here for more information about exchange.

Our QFIN students have gained valuable exchange or visiting experiences at leading overseas universities, including but not limited to the following list.

• University of Pennsylvania
• University of California, Berkeley
• Cornell University
• New York University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• University of Texas at Austin
• Stockholm School of Economics
• Copenhagen Business School
• Tsinghua University

• Peking University
• University of Southern California
• Boston College
• University of Michigan
• University of Virginia
• National University of Singapore
• McGill University
• University of British Columbia

Internships provide experience of corporate life before graduation and invaluable understanding of an exposure to work practice in the industry. Internships shorten graduates' learning curve in joining an organization and effectively help them optimize work performance.

QFIN students have gained internship experience in:

• Accenture Strategy
• Bain & Company
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Blackrock
• BNP
• Boston Consulting Group
• China Asset Management
• China Galaxy Securities
• China Renaissance
• Citadel
• Citi
• Credit Suisse
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
• Deutsche Bank

• Ernst & Young
• Goldman Sachs
• hang Seng Bank
• Hong Kong Monetary Authority
• HSBC
• JP Morgan
• KPMG
• Morgan Stanley
• PricewaterCoopers Hong Kong
• Point72 Asset Management
• SDIC Fund Management
• Silverhorn
• UBS

QFIN program is comprehensive and offers many elective courses for students to develop specialties in specific areas of finance. As such, our graduates usually do well in the examinations for professional qualifications such as

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)
• Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
• Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
• Professional Risk Manager (PRM)
• Licensing examinations organized by the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institue (HKSI Institute)

For UG students, the Department of Finance administer the application of the CFA awareness scholarship and selection of scholarship recipients for eligible final year FINA and QFIN students who are first time taker of the CFA exam. The existing scholarship is for the June exam only. Final year FINA and QFIN students can apply when the Department sends email to students in early December. Ranking criteria is mainly on academic performance.

QFIN students can participate in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. This program nurtures an undergraduate research culture at HKUST. It is designed to give undergraduate students an opportunity to work closely with work-class scholars and participate in a range of research, scholarly and creative activities. In addition to invaluable knowledge, skill sets, and experience, students who join UROP can earn academic credit and stipend at the same time. Click here for more information about UROP.