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.

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	COMP5521 Distributed Ledger Technology, Cryptocurrency and E-Payment
2	COMP5563 Applied Cryptography for Financial Applications
3	COMP5564 Machine Learning and Applications in Finance
4	COMP5565 Decentralized Apps Fundamentals and Development
5	COMP5566 Blockchain and Smart Contract Security ***
6	COMP5567 Distributed Algorithms and Protocols for Blockchains
7	COMP5568 Decentralized Finance **
8	COMP5569 Fintech Regulation and Compliance
Elective Subjects (12 credits required)
9	AF5115 Accounting for Business Analysis
10	AF5312Principles of Corporate Finance
11	AF5344 Investments
12	AF5341 Economics for Financial Analysis
13	AF5343 Quantitative Methods for Finance
14	AF5347 Financial Analysis and Valuation ***
15	AF5351 Derivatives Securities ***
16	COMP5112 Data Structures and Database Systems
17	COMP5152 Advanced Data Analytics
18	COMP5221 Software Project Management ***
19	COMP5241 Software Engineering and Development
20	COMP5311 Internet Infrastructure and Protocols
21	COMP5355 Cyber and Internet Security
22	COMP5423 Natural Language Processing
23	COMP5434 Big Data Computing
24	COMP5511 Artificial Intelligence Concepts
25	COMP5523 Computer Vision and Image Processing
26	COMP5541 Machine Learning and Data Analytics
27	COMP5542 Optimization and Applications
28	COMP5574 Computational Economics and Algorithms
29	COMP5576 Modern Cryptography
30	COMP5577 AI Security
31	COMP5579 IoT Security: Principles, Protocols, and Practice
32	COMP5583 Agentic Computing, Systems, and Applications
33	COMP5584 Large Language Models for Agents
34	COMP5933 Project *** (6 credits)
35	COMP5940 Dissertation *** (9 credits)

AIE Subject (1 credit required)

EEE5T03 Engineering Ethics & Academic Integrity (1 credit; before2026/27)

DSAI5T09 Academic Integrity and Ethics in Computer and Mathematical Sciences (1 credit; 2026/27 onwards)

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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