Case Study: University of Rome Tor Vergata achieves marketable MATLAB programming and asset‑pricing skills for graduates with MathWorks

University of Rome Tor Vergata Graduate Students Acquire Marketable Programming and Asset Pricing Skills

The University of Rome Tor Vergata faced the challenge of teaching graduate finance students with varied backgrounds the quantitative programming and asset‑pricing skills employers demand. To do this, the university partnered with MathWorks, using MATLAB and a Campus‑Wide License (plus toolboxes such as Optimization Toolbox™) to support hands‑on courses in Coding for Financial Applications and Asset Pricing.

MathWorks provided campus‑wide MATLAB access, self‑paced online tutorials, and a certification pathway that let instructor Dr. Stefano Herzel flip classroom time to problem‑solving and visualization. As a result, students quickly learned coding and model‑calibration techniques, more than 30 earned Certified MATLAB Associate credentials, the program reports a 98% employment rate within a year, and faculty have integrated MATLAB across the curriculum to improve learning outcomes.

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Stefano Herzel

Professor of Mathematics for Economics and Finance