Degree Requirements
At least 36 hours of
management course work beyond prerequisite courses is required, including 12
hours of basic business core courses and 24 hours of graduate finance
courses.� The M.S. is Finance is designed
for students with or without previous educational background in finance.� Candidates in the M.S. in Finance choose one
of four concentrations: Financial
Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Risk Management, and Financial Engineering.� The Financial
Analysis concentration is designed for students interested in pursuing a
career as a financial analyst and completing the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examinations.� The Financial
Management concentration allows students to tailor their course work for
careers in a range of activities: e.g., corporate finance, investment banking,
venture capital, private equity, commercial banking, insurance, etc.� The Financial
Risk Management concentration is designed for students interested in a
career in financial risk management and one of the financial risk management
certifications. The Financial Engineering
concentration is designed for students with the quantitative ability to pursue
a career applying quantitative methods to investment and risk management problems.
Because several of these concentrations designed to best prepare students for
certain certifications, students are recommended to complete all the course
work in a particular concentration in order to prepare for its associated
certification.��
Prerequisites
Calculus,
basic statistics, and competence in personal computing are required as
prerequisites. Candidates that have not taken equivalent courses will need to
take MATH 5304 to meet the calculus requirement; OPRE 6301 to complete the
basic statistics requirement, and BA 3351 to complete the personal computing requirement.�
Basic Core Courses (12 credit hours)
All
students enrolling in the Master of Science in Finance program must complete
the following Basic Business Core courses, or their equivalents.� Please see the catalog for further
prerequisite information.
AIM
6205��������� Accounting for Managers
MECO
6303����� Business Economics�
FIN
6301���������� Financial Management
FIN
6306���������� Quantitative Methods in
Finance
Concentrations:
Financial Analysis (CFA) Concentration
(24 hours):
AIM
6344 Financial Statement Analysis
FIN
6308 Regulation of business and financial markets
FIN
6310 Investment Management
FIN
6314 Fixed income securities and their derivatives
FIN
6320 Financial markets and institutions or FIN 6330 Behavioral Finance
FIN
6350 Advanced Financial Management
FIN
6350 Options and Futures Markets
FIN
6364 Advanced Investment Management or FIN 6370 Theory of Finance or FIN 6380
Practicum in Finance
Financial Management Concentration (24
hours):
Students
must complete eight courses; of which at least one course must come from
category A and five must come from category B.�
Category A:
AIM
6330: Intermediate Financial Accounting I
AIM
6332: Intermediate Financial Accounting II
AIM
6341: Planning, Control and Performance Evaluation
AIM
6342: Strategic Cost Management
AIM
6344: Financial Statement Analysis
AIM
6345: Business Valuation
AIM
6346: Financial Dimensions of Mergers and Acquisitions
AIM
6351: Individual Taxation
AIM
6352: Corporate Taxation
AIM
6380: Internal Audit
Category B:
FIN
6308: Regulation of Business and Financial Markets
FIN
6310: Investment Management
FIN
6314: Fixed Income Securities and their Derivatives
FIN
6315: Entrepreneurial Finance
FIN
6316: Private Equity Finance
FIN
6320: Financial Markets and Institutions
FIN
6330: Behavioral Finance
FIN
6340: Management of Financial Institutions
FIN
6350: Advanced Financial Management
FIN
6355: Corporate Finance and Policy
FIN
6360: Options and Futures Markets
FIN
6364: Advanced Investment Management
FIN
6366: International Financial Management
FIN
6370: The Theory of Finance and Its Applications
FIN 6382:
Introductory Mathematical Finance
FIN 6384: Financial
Asset Pricing and Engineering
Financial Risk Management (FRM)
Concentration (24 hours):
FIN
6310 Investment Management
FIN
6314 Fixed income securities and their derivatives
FIN
6320 Financial Markets and Institutions
FIN
6340 Management of Financial Institutions or OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision
Analysis
FIN
6360 Options and Futures Markets
FIN
6370 Theory of Finance
FIN 6384: Financial
Asset Pricing and Engineering
ECO
6311 Statistics for Economists or MECO 6315 Approaches to Statistical Inference
Financial Engineering Concentration
(24 hours):
FIN
6310 Investment Management
FIN
6314 Fixed income securities and their derivatives
FIN
6360 Options and Futures Markets
FIN
6370 Theory of Finance
FIN
6382 Introductory Mathematical Finance
FIN 6384: Financial
Asset Pricing and Engineering
ECO
6311 Statistics for Economists or MECO 6315 Approaches to Statistical Inference
MECO
6312 Applied Econometrics and Times Series Analysis or MECO 6320 Econometrics