PRM Exam Exemptions – University Accreditation

PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program

PRMIA Members who are also graduates of University Programs that are part of the PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program are eligible for exemptions for the Professional Risk Manager Designation (PRM™) Exams.

Students must successfully complete the appropriate courses within the PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program to be eligible for the exemptions. All students are required to take and pass the other required examinations within the PRM™ program as well as meet all other PRM Designation requirements (experience and membership). 

PRM Exam Structure and exempted exams

Exam Program Exempted Exams Required Exams
PRM™ Designation

Exam 1: Finance Theory, Instruments, and Mathematical Foundations of Risk Measurement

Exam 2: Risk Management Practices, PRMIA Standards of Best Practice, Conduct and Ethics, Bylaws, and the Case Study Practicum


Prospective students can be confident that accredited degree programs have a high degree of commonality with the PRM™. They can also be confident that these degree programs are appropriately rigorous, are taught by high quality faculty, and are recognized by potential employers. 

Universities interested in forming a partnership with PRMIA and gaining accreditation for your program, please contact [email protected].

To request a PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program Exemption:

An official university transcript is required when requesting an exemption. We recommend having the transcript sent to PRMIA before enrolling; however, you may enroll and arrange for the transcript to be sent afterward. Please note that exemption requests will not be reviewed until the PRM Program Fee is paid and the official transcript has been received by PRMIA.

To submit your request: 

  1. Official transcript copy sent to PRMIA by University:
    PRMIA
    Attn: Exam Coordinator
    1700 Cannon Road, Suite 200, Northfield, MN 55057 USA

    Electronic transcripts: [email protected]

All PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program exemption requests are processed within one week of receipt of the official transcript. Individuals seeking exemptions will be notified by the PRMIA Exam Coordinator if further Information is needed or once the exemption request is approved. 

PRM Fees

Graduates of PRMIA Risk Accreditation Programs are exempt from PRM™ Exam 1 and may enroll directly to take PRM™ Exam 2.

Those who are part of both a PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program and a PRMIA University Partnership Program may also be eligible to enroll through the PRM Certificate Programs for Recent Graduates and Students pathway.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]

University Degree Programs

Listed below are those programs currently holding a PRMIA Risk Accreditation. These universities have each completed a rigorous application process.

To earn exemption from PRM™ Exams, graduates from these programs must pass all of the courses listed within the program shown below. A "pass" is determined based on the University's grading policy or, in the absence of a university grading policy, PRMIA will accept any course with a letter grade of B or better (e.g., B−, B, B+, A−, A, A+).

Click on each degree program name for a list of required courses.  A link to the university's program webpage is provided.

Bayes Business School – Master of Science in Quantitative Finance

  • BBM130 Asset Pricing and Derivatives
  • SMM270 Financial Econometrics
  • BBM131 Programming for Quants
  • BBM132 Mathematical Finance
  • SMM269 Fixed Income
  • SMM272 Risk Analysis

Coventry University London – MSC Investment Risk and Trading, MSC Investment Risk and Trading with Professional Practice, and MSC Investment Risk and Trading with Professional Placement

  • 7038MECO Equity and Fixed Income Strategies and Derivatives
  • 7010MECO Hedge Funds and Other Alternative Investment Strategies
  • 7013MECO Econometrics and Algorithmic Trading
  • 7014MECO Market and Credit Risk Management

ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading - Masters in Financial Risk Management

  •  (Formerly ICM331 Securities and Investments, ICM107 Securities, Futures and Options and ICM108 Fixed Income and Equity Investments)
  • ICM337 Econometric Analysis for Finance (formerly ICM103 Quantitative Methods for Finance)
  • ICM231 Financial Instruments
  • ICM402 Financial Securities and Markets (Formerly ICM332 Financial Markets and Institutions and ICM106 Financial Markets)
  • ICM207 Market Risk

Imperial College London - MSc Risk Management & Financial Engineering

  • Markets and Securities
  • Risk Management and Valuation
  • Financial Engineering
  • Investments and Portfolio Management
  • Stochastic Calculus for Finance
  • Empirical Finance: Methods & Foundations
  • Foundations in Financial Statistics
  • Financial Statistics

National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) - PGDM Banking & Financial Services

  • Corporate Finance
  • Foundations of Risk Management
  • Security Analysis & Portfolio Management
  • Integrated Treasury Management
  • Financial Markets and Products
  • Financial Derivatives
  • Bond Portfolio Management
  • Financial Engineering and Structured Finances
  • Agri-Commodity Derivatives
  • Statistics for Management
  • Econometric Methods and Research Analysis
  • Foundations of Mathematics
  • Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
  • Operational Risk Management
  • Intermediate Risk Management
  • Integrated Risk Management
  • Advanced Risk Management

Current students or past students (who passed during the last two years beginning in 2022) enrolled in NIBM's accredited Risk Management courses of PGDM (Banking & Financial Services) are eligible for exemption from the PRM 1 (Professional Risk Manager) exam.

North–West University; South Africa – Honors BSc in Quantitative Risk Management

  • BWIN613 Financial Engineering I
  • BWIR671 Research Module: Financial Engineering and Modelling (formerly BWIN623 Financial Engineering II)
  • BWIN614 Investment Theory I
  • EKRP311 Risk Management
  • EKRP321 Financial Markets
  • WISN211 Multivariable Calculus I (formerly WISN211/WISK211 Analysis III)
  • WISN212 Linear Algebra I (formerly WISK212 Linear Algebra I)
  • APPM222 Numerical Methods (formerly TGWN223 Numerical Analysis/WISK221 Analysis IV and WISN221)
  • MTHS222 Linear Algebra II (formerly WISN222/WISK222 Linear Algebra II)
  • STTN225 Statistical Interference and Data Analysis (formerly STTK311/STTN311 Statistical Interference)
  • STTN215 Probability and Sampling Theory (formerly STTK221/STTN221/STTN225 Probability Theory)
  • STAT622 Linear Statistical Models and Experimental Design (formerly STTN612/STTK612 Statistical Data Analysis: Models)
  • STAT612 Financial Time Series (formerly STTN622/STTK622 Statistical Data Analysis: Time Series)

Queen's University Belfast - MSc Financial Risk Management

  • FIN7021 Foundations of Risk Management
  • FIN7022 Credit and Enterprise Risk Management
  • FIN7026 Asset Pricing
  • FIN7028 Advanced Financial Data Analytics
  • FIN7029 Financial Modeling in Python
  • FIN9005 Corporate Finance
  • FIN9007 Derivatives
  • FIN9008 Financial Data Analytics

University College Dublin, Smurfit School of Business – MSc in Quantitative Finance

  • Derivative Securities
  • Econometrics
  • Financial Theory
  • Fixed Income Securities
  • Introduction to Numerical Methods
  • Portfolio and Risk Management (formerly Risk Management and Financial Institutions)
  • Capital Market and Instruments (formerly Empirical Finance)
  • Quantitative Methods for Finance (since 2017)
  • Advanced Statistical Computing Methods for Finance (since 2017)

University College London – MSc Finance with Data Science

  • Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
  • Financial Econometrics and Data Science
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Plus completion of at least one of the following:

  • Options and Derivatives
  • The Economics of Trading and Exchanges
  • Investment Strategies and Risk Management

University of Canterbury –MCom (Finance)

  • FINC203 - Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
  • FINC301 - Corporate Finance: Theory and Policy
  • FINC311 - Investments
  • FINC312 - Derivative Securities
  • FINC331 - Financial Economics
  • FINC344 - International Finance
  • FINC623 - Advanced Derivatives Securities
  • FINC305/FINC616 - Financial Modeling
  • FINC629 - Credit Risk Management
  • ECON213 – Introductions to Econometrics
  • ECON324-S1 – Econometrics

University of Hong Kong - Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Finance

  • FINA1310 Corporate Finance
    (or STAT3904 Corporate Finance for Actuarial Science)
  • FINA2320 Investments and Portfolio Analysis
    (or STAT3609 The Statistics of Investment Risk
    or STAT3952 Investment and Asset Management)
  • FINA2322 Derivatives
    (or IMSE4110 Financial Engineering
    or MATH3906 Financial Calculus
    or STAT3618 Derivatives and Risk Management
    or STAT3905 Introduction to Financial Derivatives
    or STAT3910 Financial Economics I)
  • FINA3323 Fixed Income Securities
  • FINA3350 Mathematical Finance
    (or MATH3906 Financial Calculus)
  • FINA3351 Spreadsheet Financial Modeling
  • MATH1013 University Mathematics II
    (or MATH1821 Mathematical Methods for Actuarial Science I
    or MATH1851 Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations and MATH1853 Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics)
  • MATH2014 Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra
    (or MATH2822 Mathematical Methods for Actuarial Science II
    or MATH2211 Multivariable Calculus and (MATH2101 Linear Algebra I or MATH2102 Linear Algebra II))
  • STAT2601 Probability and Statistics I
    (or STAT1603 Introductory Statistics
    or STAT2901 Probability and Statistics: Foundations of Actuarial Science)
  • ECON2280 Introductory Econometrics
    (or STAT3614 Business Forecasting
    or STAT3907 Linear Models and Forecasting)
  • FINA4354 Financial Engineering
  • FINA3322 Credit Risk
    (or STAT4607 Credit Risk Analysis)

University of Waterloo - Bachelor, Mathematics/Financial Analysis and Risk Management

  • MATH 136 and 235 Linear Algebra 1 for Honours Mathematics and Linear Algebra 2 for Honours Mathematics (Formerly Algebra II and III)
  • MATH 137 Calculus I for Honours Mathematics, Math 138 Calculus 2 for Honours Mathematics, and Math 237 Calculus 3 for Honours Mathematics (Formerly Calculus I, II, and III)
  • STAT 230 Probability (Formerly Probability I)
  • STAT 231 Statistics (Formerly Probability II)
  • ACTSC 231 Introductory Financial Mathematics (Formerly Mathematics of Finance)
  • COMM 101 Introduction to Financial Markets (Replaces ACTSC 371 Introduction to Investments)
  • ACTSC 372 Investment Science and Corporate Finance (Formerly Corporate Finance)
  • CS 335 Computational Methods in Business and Finance
  • MATBUS 470 Derivatives OR ACTSC 446/846 Mathematics of Financial Markets
  • MATBUS 471 Fixed Income Securities
  • MATBUS 472 Risk Management or ACTS 445 Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management
  • STAT 371 Applied Linear Models and Process Improvement for Business (Formerly Statistics for Business I)
  • CO 372 Portfolio Optimization Models

University Degree Programs–Provisional Accreditation

Listed below are those programs currently holding Provisional PRMIA Risk Accreditation. Provisional Accreditation is available to programs which have less than a three year history. Exam exemptions are not available with provisional accreditation.

Sussex University

Contact [email protected] for questions regarding the PRMIA Risk Accreditation Program.


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