Solid contents, also required solid graduate level mathematics. The instructor may consider providing more details in some of the derivations. It is a bit difficult to follow during some lectures.

One of the most interesting, most important (for me) of all courses I took so far and THE WORST delivery ever! I can't say anything about knowledge of Mr Filipovic (it's not for me to judge) but I can read books on my own. What I mean is that Mr Filipovic's role in this course was but reduced to read slides. Nothing else!!! If it wasn't (unfortunately years ago) Sander Willems and couple of good students... Last but not least - if the result calculated by python is 60.7005 and the result accepted by grader is 60.73 (we were expected to provide answers up to 2 decimal points) then something is wrong.

An excellent course, the material presented is quite advanced for a MOOC. Short, austere videos and slides that are very rich in content despite their rather compact presentation. Do not be fooled by the description - this is far from an "easy" introduction to the subject matter. Linear algebra, stochastic calculus and the basic results of mathematical finance in continous time are necessary prerequisites in terms of theory. Basic programming skills with any language such as Python or R are also indispensable for the exercises, which require a lot of time to be completed succesfully. Time commitment to the course grows greatly starting with Week 3, and by the final quiz it can feel quite overwhelming and frustrating due to the amount of material covered in each week and the high difficulty of some of the exercises. Still, it is quite doable (I finished a few days earlier than the schedule), but the effort required is not trivial. A good companion to the course is the book written by the Instructor, "Term-Structure Models", published by Springer.

This course has been quite challenging, which I really have enjoyed. I guess this course is a shorter and easier version of the real course the professor teaches at his own institution. It only covers about one third of his text book, but now I know I can finish the textbook by myself. I strongly recommend to future learners that they get his textbook. I learned more from examples given the textbook. Since there didn't seem many learners on this course, it was quite frustrating to find a little mistake that I was making, but I guess that understanding whether the mistakes are conceptual or computational is also an important part of financial engineering. Anyway, I hope he will offer more of courses like this on coursera.

A really useful and practical course in Quantitative Finance, which really raises the bar in terms of difficulty but also the knowlegde gained is definitely there. I would recommend this course even to seasoned industry professionals (e.g. traders, quants, portfolio managers) since it provides relevant techniques for measuring and managing interest rate risk and understanding interest rates derivatives space/markets. On the other hand I do feel that with useful comments, provided by the Coursera community, this course can only become better, as time goes by.

The course gives extensive coverage in the various fields of Finance Engineering. I suppose building reading knowledge in finance can be beneficial for personal investment. I thank the Coursera team, Professor Damir Filipović, Professor Sander Willems and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for providing a good place to work, I am grateful for the good fortune to learn at the university, to communicate with the great minds, I'm not afraid of this word, grand experts in Finance.

This is one of the best online courses I have taken. It is a master level course if one actually make efforts to understand all the formulas instead of just plugging in numbers, and requires great commitment and time. Some quizzes require extreme carefulness and patience (the forum is very helpful!). However after completing the course one should be confident to explore more complicated interest rate models used in real work.

An excellent course, well structured and clearly taught. The tests were very challenging but interesting. Not being a financial graduate I found the learning curve very steep but it was very stimulating and enjoyable: the course not only taught me a lot about financial models relating to interest rates but also gave me some entry points into interesting mathematics (measure theory, martingales, stochastic calculus)

Amazing course with a great exposé of each concept and extremely well designed assignments. The contents are brilliant, really clear, the study materials are well designed. The assignments help to recognize blind spots in the understanding of the concepts and push to implement the contents. It is a really nice balance between knowledge and know-how. Also a really tough one but "pain will make it better".

Interesting course, I learned a lot. Exercises a bit tedious sometimes and pass rate fairly high, given that 80% normally grants you the distinction in UK, not just a pass rate. Also ideally you would like the entire body of the exercise checked by the instructors, not just the final number, but I guess this would be too much for a Coursera course. Overall a very good course.

This is an incredibly advanced course in Interest Rates Models based on rigorous analysis on Stochastic Calculus, with both theory and practice. The quiz and exams are difficult but worthwhile after finishing them. The only bad thing is that the feedback is not very good and it's very difficult to check the intermediary steps to see whether your calculations are wrong.

Great course to refresh interest rate finance theory and to learn something new as well. Topics are very relevant for real-world finance practice. Exercises are built to make you gain working knowledge of the material. Maybe a couple of additional (optional) videos with more detailed derivations of some pricing formulas would be a useful addition to the course.

Probably my favourite course thus far on Coursera! The instructor is a leading expert on the topic and did not hold back from mathematical rigour or challenging assignments. With the derivations and proofs of the results from the video lectures, this could potentially serve as the foundation for a semester-long graduate course on interest rate models.

A class of great quality provided by Damir Filipović and enable to deep dive into interest rates related contracts and models that enable to value them. The rythm of the voice is really good and enables the learner to follow. The slides are of great support for the concepts and the exercises are quite good. Thanks Damir, it was good to see you again!

This is an excellent course.The delivery is precise and elegant; the practice and graded quizzes are non-trivial and complement the lectures. Those who are comfortable with calculus, linear algebra and a reasonable undersatnding of stochastic calculus and programming will benefit most from the course. Congratulations to Prof Filipovic and his team.

Very challenging and rewarding course, the treatment of interest rates is of the level of a Master's degree in financial mathematics. I would advise anyone attempting this course to get at least a little more exposure to stochastic calculus before attempting it even though it already provides a small crash course.

High level teaching. Efficient and interesting with serious references. But difficult, it needs quite a lot of work, and a quite good level of mathematics and programming : linear algebra, stochastic calculus, Statistics, probababilities, python. The time given to finish it is under-estimated.

The sophisticated theory is being delivered in a very accurate and rigorous manner with references to market practice. Thank you authors and I'm waiting for the new courses in quantitative finance with the level of sophistication not less than this one.

This is a seriously challenging class, requiring some good preparation, but it is worth every minute. The course staff members are very helpful. The problems are challenging and they are well worth doing. Good luck!

Difficult but interesting course. Only it took me more time than announced to complete it and perhaps additional materials (articles, link to thesis etc...) would be beneficial

Me gusto mucho el curso, no es de nivel básico, hay que tener un conocimiento mínimo de algunos de los conceptos presentados para entender algunos quices y ejercicios.

The course is quite tough. But it is interesting to complete it. Thank you Porfessor Damir Filipovic!

Very difficult course. It took me a lot of time. It requires a background in quantitative finance.

Difficult but worth it in my opinion if your interest lies on interest rate modelling.

Finally finished! It's quite difficult, but really learned a lot! Thank you!