Master of Science in Blockchain Technology

Award Requirements

For 2024/25 intake and onwards, students are required to complete 31 credits for MSc in Blockchain Technology. In general, each subject takes place once a week in the evening over a 13-week semester. Full-time students normally take four to five subjects in a semester, whereas part-time students usually take two subjects. Some subjects might also be offered during the summer to provide greater flexibility to students in designing their study pattern.

Awards	MScBT
With Dissertation	6 Cores + 1 Elective* + 1 Dissertation + 1 AIE Subject**
With Project	6 Cores + 2 Electives* + 1 Project + 1 AIE Subject**
Without Dissertation/ Project	6 Cores + 4 Electives* + 1 AIE Subject**
Credits requirements	31

*Any 6 out of 8 core subjects should be chosen and students are allowed to take additional Core subjects to fulfil the Elective requirement.

**No credit fee will be charged for the AIE subject "EEE5T03 Engineering Ethics and Academic Integrity".

List of Subjects

Below is the table summarising the core and elective subjects. All subjects are three-credit based, unless otherwise stated. Subjects such as Dissertation and Project have different assessment requirements and require supervision arrangement. More details can be obtained from the departmental intranet, i.e. http://intranet.comp.polyu.edu.hk.

Core Subjects (18 credits required)
1	Distributed Ledger Technology, Cryptocurrency and E-Payment
2	Distributed Algorithms and Protocols for Blockchains
3	Decentralized Apps Fundamentals and Development
4	Decentralized Finance ***
5	Blockchain and Smart Contract Security ***
6	Applied Cryptography for Financial Applications
7	Machine Learning and Applications in Finance
8	Fintech Regulation and Compliance
Elective Subjects (12 credits required)
9	Economics for Financial Analysis
10	Quantitative Methods for Finance
11	Financial Analysis and Valuation ***
12	Derivatives Securities ***
13	Data Structures and Database Systems
14	Advanced Data Analytics
15	Software Project Management
16	Software Engineering and Development ***
17	Internet Infrastructure and Protocols
18	Cyber and Internet Security
19	Natural Language Processing
20	Big Data Computing
21	Artificial Intelligence Concepts
22	Computer Vision and Image Processing
23	Machine Learning and Data Analytics
24	Optimization and Applications
25	Computational Economics and Algorithms
26	Project (6 credits) ***
27	Dissertation (9 credits) ***

AIE Subject (1 credit required)
28	Engineering Ethics & Academic Integrity (1 credit)

All subjects are offered at the discretion of subject offering departments, depending on students’ demand and resources available.

Please also visit http://www.polyu.edu.hk/study for other details of the programme and admission.

*** Please refer to the Subject Description Forms for details on the Pre-requisite/ Exclusion requirement(s).

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