In my view, the CQF is an excellent program for those who want to build skills in quantitative finance from a practitioner’s perspective. The program covers a wide array of theory and application topics in stochastic calculus and finance; always focusing on their practical implications. The CQF has an excellent faculty drawn from a diverse background of academics, and practitioners who are excellent teachers as well. After doing the program, I have a better understating of the what, why, and how of the derivatives pricing models used in practice.