Master of Science in Finance
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. Students who choose not to
concentrate in a particular area of finance will follow the guidelines for the Financial
Management option. However, students who
wish to concentrate on a particular area of finance can choose one of three
concentrations: Investment Management, Financial
Analyst, or Financial Engineering and Risk Management. The Investment
Management concentration is designed for students interested in pursuing an
investment career and completing the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
examinations. The Financial Analyst concentration
is designed for students interested in corporate
finance, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate
restructuring and turnarounds. The Financial Engineering and Risk Management
concentration is designed for students with the quantitative ability to pursue
a career applying quantitative methods to investment and risk management
problems. Because these concentrations have been designed to 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
6305 Accounting for
Managers or AIM 6201 and AIM 6202
MECO
6303 Business Economics
FIN
6301 Financial
Management
FIN
6306 Quantitative
Methods in Finance
Concentrations:
Investment Management (CFA) Concentration (24 hours):
AIM 6344 Financial
Statement Analysis
FIN 6311 Valuation Models
and Practices FIN 6310 Investment Management
FIN 6314 Fixed income
securities and their derivatives
FIN 6320 Financial
markets and institutions or FIN 6380 Practicum in Investment Management
FIN 6350 Advanced
Financial Management
FIN 6360 Options and
Futures Markets
FIN 6364 Advanced
Investment Management
Financial Analyst Concentration (24 hours):
AIM 6330: Intermediate
Financial Accounting I
AIM 6332: Intermediate
Financial Accounting II
FIN 6311 Valuation Models
and Practices
FIN 6316: Private
Equity Finance or FIN 6356: Mergers and Acquisitions
FIN 6350: Advanced
Financial Management
FIN 6352: Financial
Modeling or FIN 6357: Corporate Restructuring and Turnarounds
FIN 6355: Corporate
Finance and Policy
FIN 6356: Mergers and
Acquisitions or FIN 6357: Corporate Restructuring and Turnarounds
Financial Engineering and Risk Management
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 or FIN 6364 Advanced Investment Management
FIN 6381 Introductory
Mathematical Finance
FIN 6383: Financial
Asset Pricing and Engineering
ECO 6311 Statistics
for Economists or OPRE 7310 Probability and Stochastic Processes
MECO 6312 Applied
Econometrics and Times Series Analysis or MECO 6306 Applied Econometrics
Financial Management Option (24 hours):
Students must complete
eight courses; of which at least one course must come from category A and at
least five must come from category B.
Category A: AIM 6330, AIM 6332, AIM 6341, AIM 6342, AIM 6344, AIM 6345, AIM
6346, AIM 6351, AIM 6342, AIM 6380.
Category B: FIN 6308, FIN 6310, FIN 6311, FIN 6314, FIN 6315, FIN 6316, FIN
6320, FIN 6321, FIN 6322, FIN 6323, FIN 6330, FIN 6340, FIN 6350, FIN 6352, FIN
6355, FIN 6356, FIN 6357, FIN 6360, FIN 6364, FIN 6366, FIN 6370, FIN 6381, FIN
6383, FIN 6384.
