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Students who are beginning a program in the Fall are required to have an advising appointment before they are able to register. This advising appointment can be booked online and is completed in late August just before the registration deadline. The appointment is short, but it must be completed in person.

All forms for regulations involving FGS are available on the FGS website under current students/forms. You will need permission from the course instructor and the graduate program director of the other department. If you wish to use that course to satisfy your degree requirements for your program, you should obtain separate permission from the Math and Stats graduate program director.

Comprehensive exams are part of the requirements of the PhD degree. In our program, the comprehensive exams are typically attached to courses and are normally written at the same time as the final exam for the course. You can write the comprehensive exam without having taken the course, but we typically advise students to either take or audit the course prior to the exam. You can also write the comprehensive exam during your Master's degree and they will count towards your PhD requirements should you do the doctoral program in Mathematics and Statistics at York.

There is a latex York thesis (dissertation) template available on CTAN.

We do not have a thesis proposal template.  The details of this requirement are on the FGS website and it should be written for an audience that is not a specialist in your field. The proposal should have several major elements: background for the area of research, an explanation of the problem you intend to work on, the techniques that will be used to solve the problem, what is new and innovative about what you are doing, and why the result will be important (in 3500 words or less). You may wish to speak to an upper-year student you know in your area and see if they are willing to share their version with you.

Fill out an academic petition form and include a statement of which courses you would like to count (up to 12.0 credits) from your masters degree towards your PhD degree course requirements.  If your courses were taken at another university, include as supporting documentation a detailed course description of the course that you took and the course title and number of the equivalent course offered at York University. Attach a statement of support from your supervisor.  This request should be made in your first term of study as a PhD student.

We offer a concurrent Graduate Diploma in Financial Engineering. The stand-alone FE Diploma is offered through the Schulich School of Business.

You should apply for a change of status by using an academic petition form on the FGS webpage.  This request should be made in advance of the term for which you intend to change your status.  It usually takes 4-6 weeks in order to process these requests.

For questions directly relating to our specialized programs contact the appropriate program coordinator.

Financial Engineering Diploma
Professor Michael Chen
chensy@yorku.ca

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