MFE at University of California, Berkeley

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MFE coursework.

• MFE W230DDerivatives: Quantitative Methodsopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate MFE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 13 MFE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 29 more MFE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in MFE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at MFE W230I

  1. MFE 230AInvestments and Derivatives
  2. MFE W230DDerivatives: Quantitative Methods
  3. MFE W230IFixed Income Markets

• 2 courses deep, ending at MFE 230F

  1. MFE 230DDerivatives: Quantitative Methods
  2. MFE 230FThe Design of Securities for Corporate Financing

• 2 courses deep, ending at MFE 230ZA

  1. MFE 230PFinancial Data Science
  2. MFE 230ZADeep Learning and Applications I

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MFE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MFE yet.

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Department events

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