Bachelor of science Financial Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology(JKUAT) enables graduates to understand the role of financial instruments within the broader economic and business context. The area of risk identification, risk modeling and mitigation to help them respond to increased regulation and public pressure to manage financial risk.
Bachelor of science Financial Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology(JKUAT) also helps to understand financial theory, to develop dynamic models and innovative products including programming their own developments. The advancement of the capital market such as the digitization of the Nairobi stock exchange and plans to introduce derivatives such as options, futures and forwards will also require integrated knowledge in Statistics, Mathematics, Finance and economics. It is with the foregoing reasons that the University top management challenged the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences to come up with an integrated undergraduate programme that would enable a graduate to solve a financial/risk problem holistically. Thus, JKUAT has embarked on the training of manpower in Financial Engineering.