Define Your Career In Fintech
Become a leader in this emerging space through NYU Stern’s new MS in Fintech program
Fintech is revolutionizing how firms create and deliver products and services, provide new gateways for entrepreneurship, address privacy and regulatory challenges, and seed opportunities for inclusive growth. Increasingly, technological advances are transforming the main financial intermediation functions including payments, capital raising, investment, remittances, managing uncertainty and risk, market price discovery, and mediating information asymmetry and incentives.
Fintech business leaders, whether they work at incumbent financial institutions, fintech startups, tech companies, or fintech roles at non-fintech firms need to be fluent in evolving methodologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, grasp basic foundational fintech technologies like blockchain, understand core financial services practices and operations, to become comfortable leading innovation in financial services enterprises.
Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Financial Strategy
NYU Stern’s MS in Fintech Program is designed for professionals looking to become leaders in the fintech space. This includes experienced finance professionals who are looking to understand the special challenges of digital transformation in their field, professionals with experience in data science and technology who are looking to deepen their understanding of the financial services industry, and fintech leaders who are looking to understand fintech industry trends. Our students work in the fintech industry, or in a non-fintech industry in a fintech function.
The MS in Fintech Program provides domain knowledge in finance as well as an understanding of tech evolution and enabling technologies. It also focuses on technological transformation and financial functions critical to understanding the fintech space. In addition, students build leadership skills to successfully drive tech first businesses in finance.
The fintech industry is a growing field that is constantly evolving. If you have any questions about your background and candidacy, please fill out our preliminary information form so that a member of the Admissions Committee may review your candidacy further.
In the News: NYU Stern's MS in Fintech Program
NYU Stern's MS in Fintech Program is designed with full-time working professionals in mind. The program is a one-year, part-time program divided into 1 online and 6 onsite modules, with independent study in between. Read more about the launch of the program here.
Fortune interviewed Kathleen DeRose, MSFT Academic Director, on the emergence of fintech as a field of study for higher education. Read the article here.
Poets&Quants highlighted MSFT to provide more insight on the new degree. Read the article here.
MSFT Academic Director Kathleen DeRose discusses the MSFT Program with Fortune Education. Read more here.
NYU Stern's MS in Fintech is highlighted in Government Technology: "Is Higher Ed Meeting the Need for Blockchain Professionals?"
Kathleen DeRose, MSFT Academic Director, discusses the fintech space with AACSB. Read the article here.
Business Because highlights the MS in Fintech Program and discusses the rapidly growing fintech sector.
“We’ve designed the curriculum to ensure executives are prepared with the most relevant knowledge and tools to immediately become disrupters in the field," states Kathleen DeRose, MSFT Academic Director, in an article published in the Financial Times discussing trends in the fintech industry. Read the article here.
NYU is listed among CoinDesk's top universities for blockchain in 2022. Read the story here.