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This bulletin is the official Baruch College Graduate Bulletin that all students should reference – do not reference the bulletin listed on the website of CUNY’s University Registrar. For curriculum questions, please contact the Dean’s Office of the applicable school.

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Preliminary Courses

Based on their academic background, the admitted applicants may be required to take the preliminary courses from the following list. These courses are not part of the 30-credit MSF curriculum and the students who take them will incur additional cost.

ECO 9730 

Firms in the Global Economy

1.5 credits

ECO 9740 

Fundamentals of Macroeconomics

1.5 credits

FIN 9762 

Introduction to Quantitative Tools for Finance

3 credits

FIN 9770 

Corporate Finance

3 credits


Required Courses (10.5 credits)

The following courses are required for all MSF students. The students are advised to take the required courses as early in the program as they can because they serve as the prerequisites for many electives.

BUS 9551 

Business Communication I

1.5 credits

ECO 9723 

Econometrics: Theory and Applications I

3 credits

FIN 9781 

Intermediate Corporate Finance

3 credits

FIN 9783 

Investment Analysis

3 credits



Electives    (19.5 credits)

Choose 13.5 - 19.5 credits from the list below:

Note: Only a small subset of these courses is offered each semester and the actual course offerings vary from semester to semester.

ECO 9713 

Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy

3 credits

ECO 9724 

Econometrics - Theory and Applications II

3 credits

FIN 9759 

Mergers and Acquisitions

3 credits

FIN 9774 

Entrepreneurial Finance

3 credits

FIN 9782 

Futures and Forward Markets

3 credits

FIN 9784 

Management of Financial Institutions

3 credits

FIN 9786 

International Finance Markets

3 credits

FIN 9788 

International Corporate Finance

3 credits

FIN 9789 

Equity Markets: Trading and Structure

3 credits

FIN 9790 

Seminar in Finance

3 credits

FIN 9792 

Advanced Corporate Finance

3 credits

FIN 9793 

Advanced Investment Analysis

3 credits

FIN 9795 

Debt Instruments and Markets

3 credits

FIN 9797 

 Options Markets

 3 credits

FIN 9852 

Measurement and Management of Market Risk I

1.5 credits

FIN 9853 

Measurement and Management of Market Risk II

1.5 credits

FIN 9854 

Measurement and Management of Credit Risk I

1.5 credits

FIN 9855 

 Measurement and Management of Credit Risk II

 1.5 credits

FIN 9856 

Measurement and Management of Risks in Operations and Information Technology

1.5 credits

FIN 9857 

Measurement and Management of Risks in Investments

1.5 credits

FIN 9858 

Implications of Corporate Governance, Regulation, and Ethics of Risk Management

1.5 credits

FIN 9880 

International Finance Markets

1.5 credits

FIN 9881 

Debt Securities

1.5 credits

FIN 9882 

Futures and Forwards

1.5 credits

FIN 9883 

Options

1.5 credits

FIN 9884 

Venture Capital

1.5 credits

FIN 9891 

Special Topics in Investments

1.5 credits

FIN 9892 

Special Topics in Investments

2 credits

FIN 9893 

Special Topics in Investments

3 credits

FIN 9895 

Special Topics in Corporate Finance

1.5 credits

FIN 9897 

Special Topics in Corporate Finance

3 credits

FIN 9985 

Risk Management in Financial Institutions

3 credits


Business Electives: Choose 0 - 6 credits from the list below:*

ACC 9110

Financial Reporting

3 credits

ACC 9810

Current Topics in Financial Accounting

3 credits

ACC 9993

Special Topics in Accountancy

3 credits

CIS 9555

Principles of Fintech

3 credits

RES 9776

Real Estate Finance

3 credits

RES 9850

Real Estate Capital Markets

3 credits

BUS 9801, 9802, 9803 or BUS 9811, 9812, 9813Graduate Internship I, II, III (in FIN)3 credits1-3 credits
*The maximum number of business electives and transferred credits for specialization courses is six. 

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