UCLA’s Master of Quantitative Economics (MQE) is a cutting-edge, top-ranked, STEM-designated graduate degree program — and it’s also a global community of students, scholars, business professionals and industry leaders who are committed to leveraging analytics, finance, and economics to address society’s greatest challenges. UCLA’s MQE is a 48-unit master’s program featuring a flexible timeline that allows you to complete your degree in 9 to 18 months. Our expansive curriculum includes courses that range from data science, machine learning, econometrics, and data management, to financial modeling, forecasting, accounting, and macroeconomics. Students gain exposure to R, Python, SQL, Excel and numerous financial platforms and tools throughout the program. Our curriculum and applied project opportunities are designed to provide MQE students with the talents, techniques and skills required to solve some of the most complex business challenges facing today’s financial institutions, global corporations, and government agencies.